|  I don't know how the democrat party is actually going to pull this off because the states are busted,the people are begging for jobs,with the lost of ones job often their goes the heath care insurance causing even more people with out health insurance.
Today went in to effect a extra charge of 10% tax to go tanning to help pay for this monster health care bill.
I heard on the news today that construction and manufacturing jobs are down 27% the lowest in eons.
Last I heard 15 million Americans are unemployed and 38 million house holds are on food stamp benefits the highest in again eons.
Today 14 states filed law suits against the federal government today over this health care bill,please read the article at the link below to see actually what this details in these massive lawsuits.
I know most Americans want health care reform but do you have concerns that with our country borrowing from other counties just to pay the interest each month on money our country has already borrowed was this really the time to burden the American people with this 2,700 health care bill?
I understand some people are using talking points like if not now when,my point is our country has never ever be this deep in the financial weeds,was this really the time to do this?
(Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are among 14 states that filed suit today)
March 23,2010 (Bloomberg)
President Barack Obama faces a fight over the health-care overhaul from states that sued today because the legislation’s expansion of Medicaid imposes a fiscal strain on their cash-strapped budgets.
Florida, Texas and Pennsylvania are among 14 states that filed suit after the president signed the bill over the constitutionality of the burden imposed by the legislation. The health-care overhaul will make as many as 15 million more Americans eligible for Medicaid nationwide starting in 2014 and will cost the states billions to administer.
States faced with unprecedented declines in tax collections are cutting benefits and payments to hospitals and doctors in Medicaid, the health program for the poor paid jointly by state and U.S. governments. The costs to hire staff and plan for the average 25 percent increase in Medicaid rolls may swamp budgets, said Toby Douglas, who manages the Medicaid program for California, which hasn’t joined the lawsuits.
“The states are coming through the worst fiscal period in the history of record keeping,” said Vernon Smith, a former Medicaid director for Michigan and now a principal at the research and consulting firm Health Management Associates in Lansing, Michigan. “Medicaid is the most significant, most visible and most costly part of this expansion and states fully expect to see increases in their spending.”
California’s Deficit
For California, with a $20 billion budget deficit, the extra load will cost at least an additional $2 billion to $3 billion annually, said Douglas, chief deputy director for California’s health care programs. He said the overhaul is currently projected to add 1.6 million people to the 7 million enrolled in his state’s program.
“We face enormous challenges just sustaining our existing program,” said Douglas in a March 18 telephone interview. “I just don’t see states having the capacity to move forward on these changes in this environment.”
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