It's very straightforward. Obama has already said that you can keep the coverage you have if you're happy with it. If you opt for the federal health insurance you must meet certain financial requirements and you will have to demonstrate this, just as you would for food stamps or public housing. If you don't want to do this, then you are free to pursue other insurance.

The point is . . . the quoted accusation that it allows the government to enter upon your bank account without your permission is simply not true and is not a part of this bill.

Listen once more, please . . . federal jerks will not have access to your money. It's an erroneous assumption. It's not in the Bill.

Illegal aliens should not be eligible for subsidized health insurance, in my opinion.

Now, if an illegal lettuce picker breaks his leg, he shouldn't be left in the field to crawl back to Mexico. They should get emergency room care, be put in a cast, and be deported back to Mexico. But to give him, his wife, and his kids health insurance is obviously flawed and has little support outside the Hispanic community.

AND . . . it is not actually part of the health bill.

I presume when you say the "illegal alien component", you refer to the same page by page blog critique that has been referenced before. It says:

Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free health care services.

Well, Section 152 on page 50 of the Health Choices Act of 2009 bill includes a generic nondiscrimination clause, which says insurers may not discriminate with regard to "personal characteristics extraneous to the provision of high quality health care or related services." It says nothing about "non-US citizens" or immigrants, legal or otherwise. In fact, the legislation specifically states that undocumented aliens will not be eligible for credits to help them buy health insurance, in Section 246 on page 143.

Section 246 of the bill states: "nothing… shall allow Federal payments [for] individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States,". This would seem to preclude illegal aliens.

Here is what Obama himself said in response to Katie Couric's question about health care for illegal aliens on TV.

Nancy Pelosi also says "illegal immigrants are not covered”

I think the illegal aliens issue is another bogus accusation by the blogger.

The Rove-type Republican smear is often effective, but it has it's drawbacks. Much of it has been exposed as purely partisan obstructionism. Republicans have become the party of NO. And . . . the democrats are learning to fight fire with fire, which is bad for the entire system.

The only good thing with the widening gap between left and right is that it leaves a power vacuum in the middle which is in desperate need of a major political party to emerge.

Red has done a good job refuting much of the "misinformation" that is spreading about this plan. I don't know that I agree with all of his interpretations, but the discussion brings to light the point that there should be no rush to get this thing passed. Its more than a thousand pages of information that many people don't understand to begin with. Add to the fact that it's written by politicians in bureaucrat-speak, and you have the potential for a real mess. And, as I understand it, even if it passes today, nothing goes into effect until 2013 anyway. So why rush it?....unless there is more to the motive than just improving health care. There is no legitimate reason for the administration not to take its time, get all of the information out there, refute the wrong info, and where the negative info is correct, fix the bill.