[cuban leaf]

Alternative: Tort reform

Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance. Make it like car insurance and homeowners/renters insurance.

[kosciusko51]

Agree with the first. The second should be at the discretion of the employer.

[SoConPubbie]

Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance. Make it like car insurance and homeowners/renters insurance.

Why?

It is no-one else's business, including the Government, whether or not my employer chooses to compensate me by paying for my Health Insurance.

[Finny]

Alternative: Tort reform Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance.

That too -- amen!!!

[taildragger]

Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance. Make it like car insurance and homeowners/renters insurance.

Either your employer get's the Tax Deduction or you do if you buy the policy on "Line 29" of the 1040. Small business owners can take it now on line 29, all these folks buying a policy on an "Exchange" are buying with after tax dollars and that is by design IMHO if you listen to Gruber's recent statement they did not like the deductibility when IMHO increasing it's availability to everyone would have been one of the Solutions not Obamacare.

[DoodleDawg]

Alternative: Tort reform

Something like 26 states have tort reform limiting damages in medical malpractice cases. Can you provide any evidence that medical insurance premiums are less in any of those states compared to states without tort reform?

Alternative: Sever the relationship between your employer and your health care insurance. Make it like car insurance and homeowners/renters insurance.

My employer pays 90% of my healthcare premium costs. Remove that and my insurance costs go up my hundreds of dollars each month. Why should I be happy about that?