out of this big international bank. which is what a lot of people wanted over the past year. taxpayers do not want to be in the banking business. that doesn t mean we ll get a check, though, huh? i think you divide it by the number of tax filing households, it s like $60 apiece. all right. thanks for keeping it in perspective though. i ll write you a check. you all were asking for questions. a lot of people have a lot of general questions about the health care bill. a lot has been happening. you all asked for questions. and you said you just got hounded, essentially. just inundated with these questions. we have a few. you re going to have the answers here. we picked a few. i m going to start with one here from eric. the big question from military retirees. health care already provided for military retirees. how will this new bill affect current coverage policies? it doesn t change your current active duty military benefits or your retiree benefits at all.
insurance that is going to more than make up for this fine, right? that said, there are 14 attorneys general who are on your side if you think how can the government fine me for it. this is absolutely true. this is the underpinning of the insurance reform component of health care reform. if you don t have everybody in this game, then the it just doesn t work. it is that simple. we either have health insurance reform and health reform with this mandate or it doesn t work. right. the economics of it only work if everybody is insured or that many more people are insured because you re forcing the insurance companies to make changes they don t find palatable and the flip side of that is they re going to get a whole lot more business. yes. but, again, this works. yeah. let s move on to the next one. eric m. has a question. big question from some military retirees. health care is already provided. so how will this new law affect current coverage policies if at all? andrew, th
this is absolutely true. this is the underpinning of the insurance reform component of health care reform. if you don t have everybody in this game, then the it just doesn t work. it is that simple. we either have health insurance reform and health reform with this mandate or it doesn t work. right. the economics of it only work if everybody is insured or that many people are insured. you re forcing the insurance companies to make changes they don t find palletable and they ll get a whole lot more business is the flip side of that. yes. but, again, this works. yeah. let s move on to the next one. eric m. has a question. big question from some military retirees. health care is already provided. so how will this new law affect current coverage policies if at all? andrew, the number of times i ve had this question, people who are military retirees who say, look, what does this mean for me? clear it up for us. what does this mean for the va system, right, and for people who are