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Bluegill
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 Posted - 07/16/2009 : 18:56:21
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A related report.
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"The Senate health panel's $615 billion measure would require individuals to get health insurance and employers to contribute to the cost. The bill calls for the government to provide financial assistance with premiums for individuals and families making up to four times the federal poverty level, or about $88,000 for a family of four, a broad cross-section of the middle class."
"The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan."
OHHHHH, MY BLOOD PRESSURE IS RISING, AND THE VAIN ON MY FOREHEAD IS THROBBING... 
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Nickelless
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redneck
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Posted - 07/17/2009 : 04:12:08
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I've had a HSA for the last couple of years and like it.Best thing I could find.
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The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and the government less, than HSAs.
With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the welfare state will be removed.
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CBO director: Health care bills will raise costs
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