> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:09:54PM -0400, Bill O'Connor wrote:
>
>> Oh, it's definitely not just Grassley. Many people worry that they're
>> own insurance will be adversely affected by the proposed changes. Why
>> they're not worried that their own insurance will be *canceled* by the
>> soulless actuaries that decide when they'll be dropped from the rolls is
>> left as an exercise for the reader.
>
> Because for a lot of these people who get their insurance through
> their employer - it can't be *canceled*.
The fact that anyone could really believe that their employer subsidies for health insurance can't be canceled goes a long way toward explaining how someone like Grassley could rise to such high office in the first place.
-- In Solidarity, Billy O'Connor