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The whole point of it was that it was one of the many tricks used to "pay" for the healthcare bill. Without, the healthcare bill will increase the deficit to a

• ajross 16y ago
  Uh... the health care bill is projected to reduce the deficit, mostly due to decreased consumption of Medicare/Medicaid (because more people on those plans would be covered in the private sector). The current FOX news bugabooo "individual mandate" is, in fact, one of the "tricks" used to prevent the costs from being borne directly by the federal budget. Now, one might argue that this is essentially the equivalent of a tax increase, and that's sort of true. The left wing version of that argument is that it's a dumb and complicated scheme when it would have been simpler to just raise revenue and pay for health care directly. But the core point is that whoever told you the health care bill "increases the deficit" was lying to you.
• shareme 16y ago
  that is what they want you to think..ask yourself why they had to 'borrow' 1.5 billion form medicaid for this..