Today I read that Senator Baucus wants to tax my health insurance to help cover the cost of health insurance for everyone.
And that it’s his suggested alternative to reducing tax breaks for rich people.
What?
I know Max opposes having everybody pay income taxes in order to provide health care for everybody. This isn’t Cuba, to paraphrase his reasoning; we’re not ready for it.
Instead, the other thing we’re going to do is, we’re going to force people to buy health insurance.
What?
On the bright side, treating employer-provided health insurance as income should increase people’s income-based retirement, such as Social Security. The flipside of that is that the Conventional Wisdom is that SocSec is already upside-down.
But if Max is concerned about taking money from rich people to support America (which is what it looks like) then I’m afraid he didn’t get the November Message.
March 14, 2009 at 9:05 am |
I don’t have health insurance but I sure get screwed when I do pay for health care. The hospital charges me twice as much as it charges the health insurance company.
Anything we get other people to pay for because we choose not to pay for it or cannot afford to pay for is the same as theft. Steal from the people who earn it and give to the lazy who choose not to earn it.
Rick
March 14, 2009 at 3:45 pm |
Busy busy.
The hospital charges me more because lots of people use them and don’t pay; the hospital charges me more because Medicare won’t give them what they want; the doctors charge me more because they have to carry malpractice insurance because they get sued for big bucks. The pharmaceutical companies charge me more because they have to spend millions upon millions of dollars on advertising to get people to buy drugs. Yow.