Health Subsidies

Gardener for God(dmd) asked:


The Candidate doesn’t want to scrap employer-based insurance. He would keep part of the tax deduction in place.

- Choice. About half of those with employer-financed health insurance have a choice of exactly one plan — and that plan is often designed to suit the needs of the employer, not the employee. In contrast, under the Candidates proposal, families could opt out and join another plan — perhaps offered by their church, union or trade association — if it better suited their needs.

- Portability. Presently, changing jobs means changing health plans and, often, family doctors. It also means that if a worker loses his job, he can also lose his health insurance. Under The Candidates plan, job status wouldn’t necessarily affect health coverage.

- Labor mobility. By freeing workers of the need to stay in a job to keep their health insurance, The Candidates plan would help create a more flexible workforce. A study by University of Wisconsin economist Scott Adams found that 20% to 30% of nonelderly men worry enough about losing their health benefits that they stay in jobs they would otherwise leave.

This is just a portion of the idea - but - Whose plan is it?

Nathaniel

burtongrl asked:


When you get cancer or heart disease will you be able to afford to pay thirty some percent of your million dollar health benefit to the government? This is John McCains plan to HELP health care? Oh wait, you wouldn’t get the benefit anyway because cancer and heart disease are pre-existing conditions according to your unregulated insurance company

Edison

ThisGreat asked:


I understand that GIVING is a wonderful thing.
Most generous thing to do.

But… instead of forcing the Rich people to help out the poor people…

Why not give poor people jobs with good Healthcare benefit?

Just tell CEO, Corporations and companies to train people
and hired them. Forget resume, Forget background check.
Just pay money to train people and hire them right away.
Give them flexible jobs. Time clock.
Let’s them work whenever they want and need to.

And no more job interview.

And Government should give tax refund to Corporation for
hiring people with only high school diploma, disabled, criminals,
and people who can’t compete and so on…

Good idea?

Bennie

Justin asked:


The Obama-Biden plan for health care will put the federal government increasingly in control of decisions previously made by private businesses. The plan also seeks government funding for health care costs previously paid for by private businesses and corporations, essentially making all American taxpayers financially responsible for health care costs, regardless of whether or not they wish to contribute financially to the health care needs of others. Some details include:

* Requiring “insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions so all Americans regardless of their health status or history can get comprehensive benefits at fair and stable premiums.” Insurers may not cover pre-existing conditions now in order to protect themselves and their clients from rising costs associated with those conditions that could rapidly make premiums even much more expensive than they are. Requiring coverage of pre-existing conditions not only interferes with the natural right of private individuals and businesses to freely enter into contracts but also will lead to increased — not decreased — costs.
* “Covering a portion of the catastrophic health costs [businesses] pay in return for lower premiums for employees.” However commendable this may seem, it nevertheless is a forced redistribution of wealth. It is unavoidable that this will be an expensive federal program, that, like every other federal program, will expand over time. As such it will be funded by taxpayers, who will see the federal hand taking money from their wallets to give to others, in this case as subsidies to businesses to offset health care costs.

Total federal outlays for the Obama-Biden health care plan: $50-$65 billion according to the website. The costs will be covered, you guessed it, by increasing taxes on the wealthy.

As this brief analysis indicates, the Obama-Biden plan as described in documents and pages on the campaign website amount to, essentially, a modern socialist encyclopedia.

There is no doubt that Barack Obama is a tremendously talented speaker, and perhaps an inspiring leader. That does not mean that his policies are in keeping with the vision of limited government given form by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution.

Rather, like most of those who have either sought the Presidency or actually occupied the White House, from either of the two major parties — and this includes John McCain as well — he seeks a radically expanded role for the federal leviathan in Washington.
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Bonita

eros_gary asked:


The health care plan of former Sen. John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, would require all Americans to have insurance, with people “of means” having their wages garnished or tax refunds withheld if they don’t sign up and lower-income people getting help through subsidies or government health programs, the Des Moines Register reports.
CHECK THE ARTICLE IN THE NEWSPAPER
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007711300385

Ruth

robot_hooker2 asked:


Budget deficit: $1 trillion
Tax credits and middle-class tax cut: $1.32 trillion
Health-insurance subsidies, tax credits, expanded Medicaid eligibility: $1.63 trillion
176 other programs, excluding the health plan: $1.4 trillion

Raising taxes on high-income earners will only bring in an estimated $30 billion by 2012. Closing corporate loopholes and tax havens will bring in $924.1 billion. Troop drawdown in Iraq: $5 billion.

Wilber

Barrett35 asked:


and a job with good health care benefits?

Walton

LA_Chick asked:


Under McCain’s tax plan employees would pay an additional tax on the health insurance they get from their employers. For middle income families this could result in thousands of dollars more in taxes each year. Employers will be encouraged to drop insurance plans forcing people into the private market, where anyone with any sort of health problem will be denied and you can be dropped at any time for any reason. Is that the plan you want?

http://www.aflcio.org/issues/politics/mccain_healthcare.cfm

Yvonne

mountain_fair asked:


people is not socialism…but Obama’s plan is?
Also explain how taxing my health benefits is noy a new tax on the middle class..
Everyone keeps saying that Obama will raise taxes but McCain’s plan raises my taxes immediately.

Mel

joe_shmo38 asked:


Didn’t he just say that we would get a break for having health insurance and not tax them?
Doesnt this mean the rich will get richer? Look I am just a teacher and the soul supporter of my family. The only thing I thank God before I sleep is health benefits for my family and diabetic child.
He wants to make it so that no one can afford health? I am in shock. Does anyone else know this? What other things is he hiding?

JOHN McCAIN IS WRONG ON HEALTH CARE
McCain Wants to Tax Your Health Care Benefits. McCain’s plan will create a new tax on working families by making employer-provided health benefits part of taxable income. (Health08.org, Forum, 10/31/07)

McCain’s Plan Jeopardizes Our Health Care. It undermines existing employer-based health care and pushes workers into the private market to fight big insurance companies on their own. Despite a modest tax credit, his plan will increase costs, reduce benefits and leave many with no health care at all.

McCain Opposed Health Care for Millions of Children. McCain voted against reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) because he said it covered too many children. He then missed critical votes to provide an additional $35 billion to cover 4 million more children.

McCain Cut Billions from Medicare and Medicaid. McCain risked health care for seniors and low-income families by voting for billions in cuts to Medicare and $14 billion in cuts for Medicaid. He also supported raising the eligibility age for Medicare and increasing seniors’ premiums.

Nick