[b4its2late]

Just as O and the dems wanted.

[Alberta's Child]

The GOP wants this, too -- which is why they'll make sanctimonious proclamations about how "bad" it is but will continue to fund it in Congress.

The whole point of this exercise is to gradually sever the link between employment and medical insurance. In that light, the 9% figure cited here is about 91% too low for the liking of this country's leadership.

I don't see that as a bad thing. The real problem is going to be: What comes next?

[Pearls Before Swine]

Just as O and the dems wanted.

Perhaps, if single payer is uppermost in their minds. An alternate possibility, which I haven't seen mentioned, is that the low penalty for dropping coverage might be a temporary teaser. Someone's got to pay for O-care--maybe his plan is to make employers pay by dramatically raising the initial penalty for not insuring employees.

[Mr. Wright]

. . . and I can only hope that those will be the parent companies and their subsidiaries ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC. Then and only then will we hear the cries of the liberal commentators complaining about the loss of their excellent health-care benefits.