Healthcare

$700 a Month to the Mafia

David Corn describes how Max Baucus is seriously trying to screw the middle class:

With the Baucus plan, a family of four making $66,000 would have to pay $700 a month for government-mandated health insurance coverage. That's more than many people at that income level are used to paying now for whatever health care coverage they have. For a good number of households, this could be a rather weighty obligation.

This was one of the points Olbermann was rightfully hitting last night.

$700 a month is a lot. And the real kick in balls is that Max Baucus is making it mandatory. By the way, this is just the baseline. Wait until someone actually gets sick.