yes it was, that is the point. syl, any pundit can say well prices for this or that might be 50 percent higher in 5 years.
its like saying the terrorists have a 50 percent chance of bombing san francisco in 5 years
its all opinion.
and even if true, then a bill which should be written to address this "fact" not the house bill which was written.
you cant say to me, oh my the russians are coming, so lets make candles. hr 3200 does not regulate insurance companies directly but instead provides enormous gifts to big industry , liek 50 billion dollars to ge and ibm to track all your health transactions, yet it doesnt even provide money to physicians to hire people to put paper records into electronic ones. its a total boondoggle. do you have any idea how wacky it is to give 50 billion to huge corporations, but jail physicians who are mandated to somehow magically take 10 years of hundreds of thousands of pateint record pages and magically electronicize them
at their own expense