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Improving Affordability In the Health Bill

By Big Tent Democrat

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Via d-day, the President is on board with improving "affordability" in the health bill:

Obama agreed at Tuesday evening's meeting to help strengthen affordability measures beyond what's in the Senate bill, the aide said.

How to do that without public competition? Increase the subsidies. How to increase the subsidies?

[S]weetening the deal for low- and middle-income households could require more taxes to pay for additional subsidies.

So how does the President propose to pay for his affordability, given his endorsement of the Senate financing approach (including the awful excise tax) over the House approach (which taxes the wealthy (income over 500k/year)? We'll see.

Speaking for me only


Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 06, 2010 (boomark / email).

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