Obama Mercy Hospital

[professorpinasheep]

People are going to pay for their own government health insurance, why would there be any extra taxes like that.

Because people wouldn't pay for the entire coverage, just like employees who receive coverage don't. If they did, they'd see a lot more taken out of their paychecks. The government is going to have to foot some of the bill, and if it's any more than they spend now (which would have to be, otherwise there wouldn't have been 350 billion dollars in the spending package for it) on public coverage, taxes will have to be raised to cover the deficit.

The free insurance program will still cover about the same amount of people as it did before anyway and those are run by the states themselves anyway. and as far as the government not being better off, it is't really worse off either, and more people will be able to afford health insurance they otherwise wouldn't be able to get. The point of this isn't to make the government better off it is to make it better for the people themselves that need health insurance. That's the big picture here. It isn't to generate more money or take over the entire health care system in the country.

I should've been clearer, I guess, about "making" money. I wasn't assuming the government's objective was to make a profit. What I meant was they could print more, come up with more "stimulus" money out of nowhere (or China's pockets again), etc. When the government spends money it doesn't have, inflation will increase dramatically.

They are trying to actually make it so it is easier for people to actually have health insurance. Any other costs that would be added by running this health insurance will be what is taken from the budget that the government pays the hospitals themselves and those numbers are already in the billions.

So.. the government will have more money because it's paying more out? I'm not understanding that.

The reason they can do this is because the hospitals will be saving on those billions because people will actually have the health insurance and the insurance company will be paying the bills of these people that would otherwise be uninsured.

Yes, they'll have health insurance that is subsidized by the government. The government will need money to do that. So far, I've seen nothing that shows me this is a sustainable, workable model.