The State level war against the Health Care Bill

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http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/61-health-care/1395-the-next-attacks-on-health-care-reform-061163

In 1965 Governor George Wallace led southern governors in a war to destroy the newly created Medicare program. Here we go again.


On July 30, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law. In public memory, what ensued was the smooth establishment of a popular program, but in fact Medicare faced a year of nearly crippling rearguard attacks.

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They will try to strip out the critical but less straightforwardly appealing elements of reform—the requirement that larger employers provide health benefits and that uncovered individuals buy at least a basic policy; the subsidies to make sure that they can afford those policies; the significant new taxes on household incomes over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars—and thereby gut coverage for the uninsured.