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This is just corruption on the part of repubs who steered this through. The wrote the law to help big pharma rape the taxpayers. Actually, there is NO TAX TO PAY FOR THIS AT ALL, so the repubs just ran up the deficit, now they complain that the dems are running up the deficit, but it is mostly repub screw ups from the Bush admin, and the slow recovery keeping income tax receipts low.
At least an attempt was made by the dems to pay for Obamacare, savings in Medicare, big pharma agreed to a 10% discount on the drugs provided by Medicare part D, some new taxes in the healthcare area, and the penalty on those who go uninsured. We'll see how it turns out, but I don't see how it can be as bad to the deficit as Medicare part D was, without even a shred of an attempt to pay for it.
The point was, that the bill Med part D, went through the normal process. Passed the house, a different bill passed the Senate, and then went into conference committee, and came out negotiated between both houses, and passed both chambers with democrat support, and signed by the President...NOTHING like the process that the ACA went through to pass.
But, even if you want to take that avenue to complain about Med part D, then why would you think that doing the same thing, if not worse, as in more partisan on your side with the ACA would turn out any better? Or be accepted more readily?
As for your "trying to pay for it" statement, that is as phony as the statements Obama made selling the bill in the first place about 'if you like your insurance plan....etc.' Democrats through the likes of Ezekel Emmanuel, who btw, is well documented as being, shall we say, non sympathetic to the care of the elderly, robbed Medicare to the tune of $700 billion to pay for an expansion to Medicaid which in turn offers nothing to pay for actual mandates in the ACA, and instead will leave the states in the future with an increased burden to pick up the expense as the Federal government pulls out of their assistance that they start the plan with, so another bait and switch.
The ACA also takes the taxation that you compare with Med part D, and puts it on steroids...
"WASHINGTON, DC -- Obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses. Arranged by their respective sizes according to CBO scores, below is the total list of all $500 billion-plus in tax hikes (over the next ten years) in Obamacare, their effective dates, and where to find them in the bill."
Full List of Obamacare Tax Hikes | Congressman Jeff Duncan
Although we can probably agree that in the area of Health Insurance, something had to be done, but this scale, this magnitude, the degree in which Progressive liberals over reached in this all but ensure its failure to come.