There are Lies, Damn Lies and then there's Obamacare. Even before the first mandantory pay or go to jail premium is fronted off to the Big Insurers who hold us hostage, then fronted again to Goldman Sachs, the plan proxy, this bill will have proven to be the worst in history - even worse than Prohibition. ____________________ drug addiction recovery

This slideshow says that reform mainly targets the insurence companies and no effort will be made toward the providers. THis is BS. Obama has made it very clear that insuring everyone is not the main goal of reform. It just hogs most of the attention!

boring and wrong

napkins are hitler!

bwahahahahaha this napkin shit couldnt be wronger. nice try no wait not a nice try do ur fuggin research first this person doesnt kno jack about whats going on right now

Actually, this slide makes a number of huge mistakes by conflating “exchanges” with “co-ops.” They're two completely separate concepts. A health insurance exchange is a heavily regulated “market” for individual insurance programs. It may include private plans, co-ops, and a public plan… or any mix of those three. The point, however, is to create a means of gradually moving people away from employment-based plans to individual plans by creating an environment in which individual consumers won't get screwed over. A “co-op,” by contrast, is an idea for a privately owned, “non-profit” insurance program that Senator Kent Conrad basically made up a few months ago as an excuse to oppose a government-managed insurance program. Co-ops are very poorly defined and it's possible that money-grubbing insurance giants like Blue Cross/Blue Shield would even be able to qualify for “co-op” status. So basically: Exchanges = Great Idea Co-Ops = Underdeveloped and potentially bad idea With that said, this presentation badly mischaracterizes the plans floating around congress. The Wyden-Bennett plan is based around a strong exchange, but the presentation doesn't categorize it as an exchange-based plan… despite the fact that it is arguably the best and most viable example of such a plan. Similarly, Obama's plan and HR3200 also include exchanges (but not co-ops). The only plan that will likely have a co-op will be the bill coming out of the Senate Finance Committee.

There is a slight error on slide 44 but this is a very well done presentation.

This is a really great slide show, but, “It takes 4 napkins?” No… apparently it takes 51 napkins.

Damn. This is very good!

This is perfect and I'm going to try to get as many people to read it as possible. “Will I be better off shouting or thinking?” EXACTLY.