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Why do the taxes start before the benefits start on healthcare?

If the bill passes we will have all of the new taxes put into effect years before we receive any benefit. Why don't we make the benefits go into effect at the same time we have to start paying for it. Doing this would allow us to know the true cost of the bill unlike the way it is set up now. I am all for reform I just don't like paying for stuff I don't get. What if you have cancer now are you just supposed to wait so Biden can have his bill look like it is cheaper than it really is.

Public Comments

1. Bercause the money has been spent !!!
2. It's money in the bank to help cover it.
3. greed
4. That is just the way government works.
5. The only way to sell it under a trillion. If this passes it will go down in history as the biggest screw up ever.
6. Why isn't the bill going to go into effect until Obama can get elected to a second term? Politics at its best... he is thinking of himself, and not of The People. If his version of health care reform is so great, why not enact it NOW instead of when it is politically opportunistic for him? How many people will have to DIE between when the bill gets signed and in the space of a few years before it goes into effect? Obama cares more about himself and power than about people dying in the streets due to lack of health care. The Obama lovers are just as despicable. They care more about the cult of personality, than about people not dying in the streets.
7. makes you wonder what the cost of yrs 5 through 15 will look like.
8. Because it takes time and money to restructure a health care system, plain and simple. The same is true of practically any change in the political sphere, it's not instantaneous. The only other possibility is to have the government go much further into debt to cover these upfront costs.
9. Can you imagine how much money that would be? Just laying there, supposedly for a health care bank roll. I don't believe for a minute that this bunch of spending fools in congress can leave it alone for very long. They will find something to "borrow" it for and then it will be gone.
10. No, we won't...the expiration of the Bush tax cuts have nothing to do with Health Care reform...that tax adjustment was going to happen regardless of whether Health Care Reform passed or not but don't let reality stop you. Seems like ignorance is the main ingredient one needs to oppose the President these days, anyway.
11. as reported multiple times in the media, except in the MSM, the estimated real impact of the bill in the last few years [8, 9, and 10] is a net cost of near $100 billion a year. This is offset in part by collecting seven years of taxes but providing only four years of benefits, in order to 'meet' the claim of being 'budget neutral'. like much of the rest of the bill -- it's a crock.
12. Because we are the largest debtor nation in the world. We are broke and on our last credit card before the house of cards collapses.