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To: Sam who wrote (134393)	3/23/2010 2:52:09 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 542909

Overall, I don't like and wouldn't vote for this bill, but there are elements of it that are good. Forcing the insurers to design a transparent benefit structure and then honor it, is a good thing. But it didn't take this great big giveaway program to accomplish that. My POV is generally one of cost. My assumption right now, even though there are several elements that may benefit me or family members personally, it simply that it's a boondoggle. I'm still studying it as snips and pieces of it come out, but nothing yet has convinced me it won't prove to be a fiscal house of cards just like Medicare and SS. It probably will be popular with the public though. There really are lots of goodies in it with no one group left out. And the subsidies will be within grasp of close to all five income quintiles in most states. Once every group that's squawking right now....like small business owners....realize they will get significant tax breaks/subsidies to help them out, they'll tone down. So it may not hurt Dems in the November elections at all....may even help them. They just need to run lots of ads pointing out the middle-class benefits, some of which even seniors will like.