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Originally Posted by Aquila
No. Allow the government to negotiate lower premiums through the group rates it can secure to lower the premiums enough for preachers and other hard working Americans to be able to pay for it themselves.
The subsidization will primarily be through adjusted block grants to individual states to use in programs currently in place.
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Where do you think the money for these "block grants" is going to come from?
I will tell you. From my pocket and that of other hard working Americans.
If you think the government is going to be able to negotiate any savings in health care you have a lot more confidence in the government than I do.
As I heard someone say the other day just think for a minute that the same yoyo's that run your local post office and Social Security office on a Federal level and the folks who run your local DMV on the state level would be administering your health care! That is a scary thought as inefficient as those people are.
Medicare and medicaid are prime examples of how inefficiently the government runs health care when it is given the responsibility. The amount of fraud and overcharges / overpayment in those two systems is amazing.
Nothing is free. As much as I empathyze with your pastor his church should band together and get him medical insurance, not my taxes.