I'm tired of hearing you fucking retards tell me this isn't going to affect me or I won't see change. Do you have any fucking clue what you're talking about or are you talking out of your ass because you want some fuckin handouts? I'm serious, this shit pisses me off beyond belief.

Let me break it down for you, factually, from the business standpoint.

Healthcare is now MANDATORY and they just removed the cap on how much insurance companies can charge. Not only do businesses have to provide healthcare to the EMPLOYEE, but also his entire family. For a twenty million a year revenue company with approx. 150 employees, you're looking at a cost change from 200-300k, to 500-800k. First off, the economy is already struggling, business is down, businesses are struggling and making huge cuts, look at our fucking unemployment. So this is the bottom line affect people are putting on companies. That means above said company will have to generate another 300-500k GROSS PROFIT just to cover medical cost to make no changes and make the same bottom line. That means 300-500k after we pay for taxes, labor, equipment, material, subs, whatever other costs may be incurred to generate that revenue. That means realistically you're looking at a required increase in revenue of about 1.2-1.5 million, minimum. That is just to cover the change in cost of medical. Companies are not going to be able to just say, oh well lets just go do more business, its not that easy. That means companies have to raise their prices to pay for a portion of it, cut benefit programs such as 401k, and here is the best one, LAYOFFS!!

So then what happens? Well, we have more unemployed people so businesses can stay afloat, but healthcare is free for people w/o jobs so the cost goes up again, but this time not as much. The majority of companies that survive are the huge corporations and the tiny tiny stores (under a half a million-million revenue). These companies have few enough employees the cost, but the middle ground companies, the 1-100million range, they'll suffer. MANY of them will not be able to incur these costs and stay afloat, that means more unemployed. The bigger corporations will pick up the new business and hire. Long term affect possibility is that we head more towards socialism. Reasoning being that as these large corporations pick up all the mid sized companies business, they became monopolies and closed markets. The government doesn't like those and the government will step in. MY THEORY is if this shit continues the government will say this is a mess we need to run it for you. Eventually we'll end up as a socialist country. I know my ass will be moved to the UK way before that happens though.