Healthcare costs

As the week continues, the much possibility of the Congress passing a vote on the healthcare bill this Saturday grows nearer and nearer. Today (thursday) thousands of individuals gathered at the Capital to protest the bill and requesting that the vote be delayed. This protest may have resulted out of the continuous public concern over the media coverage on the bill. Sources everywhere keep debating the unknown costs to the public, all agreeing that the number will be in the high-end billions to the low-end trillions, however the exact amount is unknown because costs can only be estimated. The most recent estimate that was posted by the nonpartison congressional office, accoriding to an article featured on foxnews.com by Judson Berger, claims that the house bill will bring $167 billion over ten years in penalities for those who do not have health insurance. The house claims that with the passing of the bill that healthcare will be affordable so the fines will be uneccessary, but affordable too who?

This is another growing concern for the public in regards to the healthcare bill and an addittional reason why the public is gathering at the capital today to ask that the vote on the bill be delayed.