Will this be the largest corporate welfare bill? Has anyone run

[mmonk]

the numbers yet or will the bank bailouts still be?

[orpupilofnature57]

1. I guess banks , We'll benefit from this ,They benefited from that ,they always

need more.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Nope. The MIC, hands down.

[mmonk]

3. Yes, at present that is first.

The ongoing nature of both now will be interesting to follow. Medical cost inflation is one of the highest in the US.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. $100B annually vs. $600B annually.

If you flipped those expenditures, everyone would have their own personal physician tagging along with them.

[Blackhatjack]

5. I'm not excited by the 'public option' as explained so far... I am hopeful it will evolve ....

As I understand the present proposal, all but 5% of our citizens will be 'boxed out' of selecting the 'public option' if they are offered insurance coverage from an employer or already have healthcare insurance.

So the plan 'offered' by an employer may be the worst in the land, and yet you won't qualify.

Even if you do qualify to choose the 'public option' it will take 4 years to get up and running, and in the meantime you will have access to 'catastrophic coverage' which likely will involve large deductibles and co-pays.

When Congress gets down to hammering out the details, it will become obvious that without significant details being added this will create huge loopholes for the healthcare insurance companies to game the system, and make out like bandits.

[mmonk]

9. Loopholes will be the game as it always is.

[emulatorloo]

6. declining care on pre-existing condition will be illegal, cutting coverage will be illegal, reducing

coverage will be illegal. I don't think that exactly qualifies as "corporate welfare."

[mmonk]

12. Subsidies and 30 million additional mandated customers by law could be.

Have you done the math? If the average annual monetary contribution of those 30 million is $6,000.00, the money would equal, for example, $1,800,000,000,000.00.

[KittyWampus]

7. First you'd have to factually demonstrate that this actually will be a corporate welfare bill.

[mmonk]

11. Sure. 30 million mandated customers by law and subsidies.

[spanone]

8. no, the iraq afghanistan wars are corporate welfare to the kill industries

this will actually KEEP PEOPLE ALIVE

[Joanne98]

10. The MIC's bigger but they could have competition.

These is a two trillion dollar robbery at least.