This is a direct quote from the referenced article:
“The surtax percentages could rise two years later, they added, if lawmakers think additional cash is needed to cover the cost of health-care reform. ”
So, technically speaking, they could raise taxes on the “wealthy” to almost 50%, because any thinking person can already see the price tag will be WAY more than estimated.
What an absolute tragedy.

I’m sorry, I love when I can get a laugh. But , it is no laughing matter. I was just sitting here wondering about the elderly population that is dependent on Medicare, they already have constraints on their coverage and access. Here, in the Tidewater area(Va.), many doctors do not take Tricare (military insurance). When it had been CHAMPUS years ago, it was no problem. This past decade, more and more docs have closed their practices to accepting both Tricare and Medicare patients.

I wonder how all those retirees in Florida who voted for Mr. Deception himself, are feeling now.

Always want an economic good that someone else gets made to pay for. The real test of healthcare’s value is how many people would actually want this monstrosity if they were even partially on the hook.

and misinformation that it wins the Saturday morning “Best of the Worst” award. Congratulations! Be proud of your accomplishment because this award is usually only given late in the day, but due to your stupendously stupid comment, we’ve taken a vote and decided to confer it on you early.

Go ahead, make our day and say something even dumber. Be forewarned though, no matter how low you go in trying to outdo yourself in idiocy, you can’t win twice in one day, so pace yourself. We give them away on Sundays, too.

Repair Man and Janis said…

…what little round puckered orifice did you pull that 70% out of… and it smells like it.

80% of Americans say they are content with their health coverage…

…but then again, 70% of those who have no health insurance DO want someone else to pay for it!

and he is an out of his head, hard-core liberal … with a public access TV show. The American people might want qauliy health care, better coverage and cheaper costs … but they sure as hell DO NOT WANT THE GOVERNMENT TO DO IT.

We have already started an austerity program at home focused on lowering household income by about 10%, lower productivity, refusing stock grants and generally lowering success so we don’t get slapped with another 5 figure bill at tax time … despite our payroll tax. The new American Dream is to make less that Obama’s (constantly lowering) bullseye on the middleclass.

I don’t want it and I won’t pay for it … and we’re contracting the economy to save ourselves from paying for it.

Whatever happened to rewarding sucess, striving for excellence and competing to get ahead. All we get now is “I’m owed”, “I want” and “I need”. Oh for the days of “I earned”.

Hopping in the next handbasket as we’re all heading to hell via the Obama Expresspay Expresssway.

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ITS A RIGHT!

like air, or breath mints!

It’s a flippin’ right!

had nothing at all to do with health care. It is solely about one thing:

The destruction of the United States of America as a free-market capitalist country. No one in D.C. is asking the question you posted because the whole purpose of this is to kill freedom in this country forever. Face it, destroying a country like America from within was never going to be cheap.

With the exception of themselves and a few “props” for touting their “accomplishment,” they will simply kill off and/or let die most of those who may need costly care or treatment.

Obama and Biden repeatedly promised people with coverage through their employer that nothing would change – except that their premiums would drop $2,500/year per family. We had better hear reminders of that about 5 billion times from the GOP in 2010 and 2012.