It sure as hell is hard to keep up with all the crap that is going on for those of us who don’t have that as part of our job descriptions or lifestyle.

I came across this and thought "here we go again". Lousy legislation passed as a historical triumph comes ‘home to roost’ as real world activity associated with the legislation comes to ‘light’.

"Democrats canceled hearings after learning companies’ plans would make health insurance bill look bad";"House Democrats abruptly canceled hearings into major US companies’ responses to their massive health care overhaul after receiving documents revealing that companies were considering dropping all of their employees’ health benefits in response to the healthcare bill."

"Documents obtained by Fortune and published on CNN show that AT&T and other major companies — including Verizon, Deere and Caterpillar — considered eliminating their employee benefits program and simply paying a fine to the government for those they employed without insurance. The fine for AT&T would have amounted to $2,000 per employee, costing the company a grand total of $600 million a year. Maintaining benefits, meanwhile, will cost the firm some $4.6 billion."

"On the flip side, health insurance companies have argued the penalties for not carrying insurance are too small. They posit that some Americans will decide to pay a fine rather than carry insurance because the fine is cheaper, and they figure they can buy insurance when they get sick (since insurers will be banned from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions)."

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