Originally Posted by PR_Tom

Neither democratic candidates plans (dont know if the republicans have plans they've put out), require you to drop your private insurance or change anything at all. Of course any tax money it needs you wont be able to opt out of, but thats how it is now with so many things. Paying school tax if you have no kids would be similar imho. Or if you have kids and send them to private schools, you're kinda paying twice.

On tax increases, lets also bear in mind that there is so much "pork" that can be cut, it wont be as if we're starting from 0. We'll need to cut the crap first. Requiring congress members to attach their names to their 11th hour pork will help us weed out the idiots in time.

Besides all that, I'll personally never forget watching my neighbor get her new shiny car, tell me she's moving into a house she bought, and having her *welfare* check accidently delivered to my mailbox fuck, I mean come on. There's enough built-in error to be trimmed to get this all done with barely any monetary pain at all. And thats really the bottom line isn't it?

If you dont HAVE TO switch from your current health care status, and it doesnt cost you MORE money when all the negatives are deducted and positives added.. then surely there is no remaining issue to fight over?