[screaminsunshine]

What if no Americans are able to earn more than 250,000 per year?

[MDformerDem]

He has no mandates on individual adults is what Kerry means. Obtaining health coverage is not compulsory.

Obama's health plan has never made any sense to me -- it's just another fairy tale. The idea that insurance companies will cover all w/ affordable premiums based on letting tax cuts for > $250K expire doesn't pass the smell test. Obama's health plan sounds like the junk faxes I get: You can't be turned down for coverage! Call 1-800-blah-blah.

[WL-law]

Obama: “Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.”

Interesting. Already a significant percentage of “uninsured” Americans are people that are healthy, fit, typically young, who make a purely rational economic decision that buying health insurance is a bad bet — that it will cost them $4K/yr, and the likelihood that they will get seriously sick is near nil.

Now Obama is saying, ‘you can buy health insurance AFTER you get sick.’ Really!?? So why would I buy insurance NOW then?? Of course I’ll just wait.

Which shows the inanity of lumping all the “uninsured” together in some sort of fake misery index.