Health bill says 'tax' when Obama said 'not'

[Mike (Premo)]

In the most contentious exchange of President Barack Obama’s marathon of five Sunday shows, he said it is “not true” that a requirement for individuals to get health insurance under a key reform plan now being debated amounts to a tax increase.

But he could look it up — in the bill.


Page 29, sentence one of the bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont) says: “The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax.”

And the rest of the bill is clear that the Finance Committee does, in fact, consider it a tax: “The excise tax would be assessed through the tax code and applied as an additional amount of Federal tax owed.”

The bill requires every American, with few exceptions, to carry health insurance. To enforce this individual mandate, the Senate Finance Committee created the excise tax as a penalty for people who don’t have insurance – and it can run as much as $3,800 a year per family.

The House bill also refers to the penalties for not carrying insurance as a tax. It calls for a “tax on individuals without acceptable health care coverage” and amends the tax code to implement it.

Health bill says 'tax' when President Obama said 'not' - Chris Frates and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com


Ha. They expect zerO not to LIE.

[bcp (Premo)]

]The excise tax would be assessed through the tax code and applied as an additional amount of Federal tax owed

And back to my complaint.
I will pay for the government option, I can pay for my own option, but I will still pay the same amount for the government option as if I had it.

Pretty damn dumb if you ask me.
I should only pay for the government option if I want to use it. Those that use it should support it totally without any additional funding from the taxpayers.

I would go for a plan like this, but only if it was written in that under no circumstances would there ever be a tax implemented against the population as a whole