I have carefully reviewed each of the candidates' health care proposals. Except Thompson who is still waiting for the Hollywood writers to finish the script.
The Dems want some form of Universal care.
The Republicans want only tax breaks...and that will solve most everything.
I even read where Clinton's plan suggests something by the second term! Shouldn't she win first.
I think that the only solution is a marriage between government and the private sector. NO, no, I dont really mean marriage requiring another constitutional amendment...
I mean, take government out of insurance, like mandated benefits and you will see more choices and affordability in the private sector.
Everything that the government thinks should be mandatory, they should provide for.
What do you think??
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We can't trust our employers
We can't trust our employers to provide us in healthcare, even if they are given a tax break... the only people we can trust to do what is best for americans are the people we elect, and not those who dictate when we come to work 40 hours a week.
it is not welfare, it is not socialist... it became to expensive and now the governement needs to step in and fix this system... profit aside, because those "employers" could not do right by the people that needed the heath care system, having lunches more expensive than a cancer treatment. SO YEAH, government health care seems to be better than the status quo... which from my end looks like nothing at all.
We can't trust our employers
We can't trust our employers to provide us in healthcare, even if they are given a tax break... the only people we can trust to do what is best for americans are the people we elect, and not those who dictate when we come to work 40 hours a week.
it is not welfare, it is not socialist... it became to expensive and now the governement needs to step in and fix this system... profit aside, because those "employers" could not do right by the people that needed the heath care system, having lunches more expensive than a cancer treatment. SO YEAH, government health care seems to be better than the status quo... which from my end looks like nothing at all.
Tax breaks solve nothing at
Tax breaks solve nothing at all for the following groups of people:
1. Pre-existing conditions......usually those people are unable to buy health insurance at all at any price. Occasionally, when they are able to buy it, they cannot afford it, because it is an individual policy priced at a scale that would be unbelievable to most people. Mine was $16,000 per year when I finally had to give it up ten years ago.
2. No employer-sponsored health plan. While estimates vary, in the most general terms, health insurance for a family of four runs about $12,000 per year. When the family income runs at less than $60,000 per year, that's a cost that is just too high for most families.
3. Low-wage workers. Even if the company provides some kind of health plan, many simply cannot buy into it because of the low wages they are paid.
A tax credit only works if a) you can afford the insurance; and b) you have a high enough income that it does you some good. In many instances, these two conditions are not met, and so the idea fails.
A better solution is to simply take insurance companies out of the equation. Before the insurance companies entered the non-catastrophic health care industry, we all managed fairly well, even though we had no employer-sponsored or government-sponsored health plans.
Universal health care DOES NOT MEAN socialism or a welfare state. It means bringing order to a chaotic situation, and the first step is to remove insurance companies from the equation for all but catastrophic health plans.
I think any form of
I think any form of "universal healthcare" is a red herring of sorts, it will not solve anyone's healthcare inadequacies and will create more for those who actually seek out and work hard to find and maintain a job where they can buy into the current insurance system.
Universal healthcare is a slippery slope that should not be traversed, we should destroy the idea now, before the idea destroys us. We must reform our system, not propagate the welfare state.