[NittanyLion]

"People could have kept their cheaper, bad coverage, and those people wouldn't have been part of the common risk pool," Lee said. "We are better off all being in this together. We are transforming the individual market and making it better."

Good to know our government overseers are here to protect us from our bad choices. Certainly individuals can't be trusted to act in their own best interest.

Lopez says he's willing to absorb that one-year jump if it means the government can rein in future rate hikes. "I'm hoping with this reform," Lopez said, "we won't see big increases year after year."

Good luck with that.

[Mygirlsmom]

Lopez says he's willing to absorb that one-year jump if it means the government can rein in future rate hikes.

There is no breaking point with these people. Utopia is just one year away...I can feel it!

[Carry_Okie]

Certainly individuals can't be trusted to act in their own best interest.

"Their own best interest" is not the goal, which is "the common good." Whether you like it or not, that is the distinction. Liberals, being stingy by nature, cannot envision a system that relies upon charity to cover those who cannot fend for themselves. Hence, they project the necessity of coercion and then deem the level of "contribution" by which to sate their guilt. Of course, they also plan to get a hefty cut along they way as a reward for their "beneficence" with other people's money.