Even if bill is signed this fall, uninsured won't get coverage until 2013

I'll bet it didn't take Congress 10 years to get themselves health care paid by taxpayers.

I know you will be surprised that I still haven't gotten a reply from either of my Republican Senators asking what kind of insurance they have and how much they pay for it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32013032/ns/politics-white_house/

Medicare took one year; reform to take decade

updated 4:38 p.m. ET, Mon., July 20, 2009

WASHINGTON - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare law on July 30, 1965, and 11 months later seniors were receiving coverage. But if President Barack Obama gets to sign a health care overhaul this fall, the uninsured won't be covered until 2013 — after the next presidential election.

In fact, a timeline of the 1,000-page health care bill crafted by House Democrats shows it would take the better part of a decade — from 2010-2018 — to get all the components of the far-reaching proposal up and running. The moving parts include a national insurance marketplace overseen by a brand new federal bureaucracy — the Health Choices Administration.

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