Reply #15: I hope you are right.

[ThomCat]

Delivery of subsidies to the insurance companies are important enough to be in the bill already. Delivery of subsidies to the poor are so low priority that they are being kept very vague and will be worked out sometime between now and 2013, if they survive.

Punishments are already described in detail, but subsidies and help aren't. That's a very bad sign, and not one that doesn't inspires confidence.

I agree that our party doesn't want to see people go to jail over this. It would make the party look bad. But at the same time the threat of going to jail is always very useful for coercing people and our party is not above using that deliberately.

The fact that penalties are written first makes me think our party really wants to force compliance with any shit they end up passing regardless of what people think about it, and they anticipate that the public will hate this when they figure out what they are getting.