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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
I think you are right with the fee. Which is an indirect tax on the citizens. But if you add a tax or fee do more people will move to the public option because of cost. It is just a way to make everyone move to the public option which will be riddled with fraud and waste.
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For sure. If they add a new fee/tax on to every policy, that will just raise the cost of the policy. I Think that Obama somehow beleives that if every insurance company can operate in every state then the competition will lower costs so much that even with the fee it will be much lower than it was before.
I also think his public option will require certain critereia to be met before you can join it. This will will keep employers from just dumping insurance coverage and telling their employees to go on the public plan. If this is the case, maybe they can keep the public option resonably cost effective, but I fear that there will be very few barriers that keep people out of the public plan. What could happen is that someone who goes on the public plan then gets a job offer might end up just getting paid by their company to stay on the public plan since it could be much cheaper.
All I know for sure is that I have really good friends that work for small town governments and those governments waste money and are bloated beyong belief and it is only a few people running it and a few thousand people living in that area using the services provided by that government. I can't see how they will run a program that will cover millions and not end up getting bloated and expensive.