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    Ted Kennedy to be succeeded by a toolbag

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

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    It's more of a half-assed takeover. It not only mandates that you should have insurance, but what kind. If the Senate deems that it doesn't cover enough, you're fined. If it's too much, it's labeled a "Cadillac" plan, and you're subject to additional taxes. If you prefer to have a high deductible plan with health savings accounts to cover out of pocket costs, the governments further limits what you can put into those accounts. I don't see the need for these mandated insurance exchanges, when they could just make it legal to buy insurance from across state lines. And they're paying for this bill through Medicare cuts. Primary care doctors are already being screwed by low Medicare reimbursements, not to mention refusal to reimburse for treating "hospital-acquired" infections and hiring private companies to meticulously audit medical records for overbilling so that they can collect a portion of the refund. If you're going to further cut Medicare and then propose a bill that sets the stage for further government control of payments (and thus a bigger portion of their income subject to the whims of the government), you're going to have a lot of 50 year doctors retire.

    So true!

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