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This bill will pump about $500 billion in public tax credits into the coffers of the big health insurance companies.This occurs by granting the insurance companies their greatest wish, which is by making it illegal not to be their customer. Nice deal if you can get it. In order to pretend that this is a good deal for the American citizens, some of the currently uninsured will be given tax credits to buy insurance. What this really does is pump billions of dollars of tax money into the insurance companies. What Kucinich calls a "Bailout with a blue cross."
Why does this make future reform more difficult? Because, what we have seen over and over again is that a portion of this federal money will be recycled into campaign contributions and lobbyist fees and gifts.
What we will face in the future, when we continue to get affordable health care for citizens instead of mandated profits for insurance companies is an opposition that is very well funded.
Assuming that anyone has any money left for politics after buying their mandated health insurance, what campaigns and efforts will face millions of our own money that went to the insurance companies as tax credits and which is then recycled to use against us to make sure we are stuck in this awful system.
