How NOT to pay for Health Care Reform

Courtesy Donklephant  Tue, 07/14/2009 - 5:22pm

Universal Health Care...

How?

The Obama administration has managed to collect some concessions from hospital groups and drug companies , to the tune of over $200 billion in savings over ten years.

This is nothing to sneeze at, but it still leaves the lion’s share of the proposed legislation searching for funding.

Setting a requirement for employers to pay a fee to help cover uninsured employees takes another bite out, leaving hundreds of billions still...


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