LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN

I was watching CSPAN today and noticed that many of the callers in support of this bill were unemployed individuals that could not afford insurance. To me, it seems the logical step would be to attempt to get the economy rolling again to assure more people can earn an income and pay for their own health insurance. The focus should be on reducing taxes on companies, to enable them to hire more people. Yet, this is the complete opposite of what is proposed with this bill's passage. The funding of this bill includes a substantial tax increase on insurance, medical device, and drug companies. Government easily drives the insurance companies out-of-business, eliminating the public option. An easily understandable ploy of you are a scum politician driven by power.However, the confusing thing to me is: why the tax on medical device and drug companies? These taxes will only serve to cripple the "improvement" of healthcare through the advancement of technology. According to this logic, they seek to cripple medical advancement to assure everyone has crappy care. Absolutely ABSURD!  As Bill Hawkins, CEO of medical device company Medtronic, states in the WSJ that his "company[medtronic] could cut at least 1,000 jobs to absorb a new 2.9% excise tax on medical-device makers. Where is the justification in people losing their jobs to assure that others get health insurance? Many of these individuals are welfare recipients that receive the exploits of the hard-working man/woman. Therefore, the message that we must live for is to work hard to ensure people can continue to be lazy. That's what we have become: Lazy-Ass America!