Even more chilling than these tax increases are the President's proposed limitations on individual freedom. Young people, for whom health insurance is often an economically wasteful purchase, will be deprived of choice. Those who prefer not to buy health insurance will pay a tax instead. (Actually, this is the main way in which the Democrats' proposals will reduce the numbers of the uninsured--they will force young, healthy people to buy insurance that for them is overpriced and which they don't want.)
The Senate bill included a "grandfather" provision that allowed those who like their current coverage to keep it. Actually, the Senate proposal would rapidly have driven those independent policies out of existence. Obama's proposal is even worse; it imposes draconian requirements on grandfathered policies that guarantee that if you like the insurance you already have, you will lose it almost immediately.
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