Not only that but it sounds like the health care bill may force everybody to buy a “comprehensive” health insurance policy with a fairly low annual deductable, whether we want it or not. Those “comprehensive” policies will cost more than high-deductable policies, which are usually purchased by younger people in good health and higher income people who want to self-insure up to a certain cost level (like myself). So this bill will effectively be a tax increase on people who want high-deductable policies and don’t need a lot of coverage—a tax increase to subsidize insurance costs for poor people and people with pre-existing conditions, who are going to be extremely expensive for health insurance companies. We’re losing our freedom of choice as the democrats seize control of our economy and our lives.
Depending on when fully subsidized healthcare kicks in, we are going to turn ourselves into a socialist European country. It won't make any sense for people in the middle class to make more money because they will lose it all in mandatory insurance and taxes. The American Dream will officially be supplanted by a cradle to grave worker bee mentality.