However, in the proposed regulation the Obama Administration further expansively interprets that already broad, statutory text to also apply those prohibitions to the benefits covered by health insurance plans, the treatments provided by medical professionals, and the health insurance coverage of tens of millions of Americans enrolled in private, unsubsidized plans.
"Right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance.
Nobody considers that a tax increase."Obama faces an enormous political and communications challenge in selling his health care plan as Congress debates how to pay for it all.
Obama’s idea was to mandate coverage for children, but not for adults.
Still a lofty goal, considering 12% of the nation’s children are currently without health insurance (that figure rises to 14% here in Colorado).
Private employer-sponsored coverage would decline by 13.9 million, and private non-group coverage would decline by 7.7 million.
Meanwhile, 18.6 million employees would buy into the new public plan through their workplace (as their employers switched to this plan from private coverage), 13.1 million individuals would buy into the public plan in the non-group market, and 16.6 million individuals would become newly enrolled in Medicaid or SCHIP.
He told CBS' "Face the Nation" that he will keep his pledge not to raise taxes on families earning up to 0,000, and that much of the final bill - hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years - can be achieved from savings within the current system.
Coming up with the rest remains a key legislative obstacle. Obama put his support behind the idea of taxing employers that offer high-cost insurance plans."I do think that giving a disincentive to insurance companies to offer Cadillac plans that don't make people healthier is part of the way that we're going to bring down health care costs for everybody over the long term," Obama said on NBC's "Meet the Press."Obama's network interviews were taped Friday at the White House.
I’m just not sure how well that’s working out for families who can’t afford 0,000 earrings.
(As an aside, what Cindy Mc Cain wears is pretty far down on the list of things that matter to me.