I don’t know where this health care mess is going to end up, but I just signed up for my company’s plan for next year, it the total is going to be $10,500. This is just nuts.
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Biden in VP debate - (John McCain’s) plan to tax healthcare a “road to nowhere.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wxCkH4PVM
Obama ‘08 ad - attacks McCain on healthcare - on points that are now part of the Dem plan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l8ZOMd468o
The government took thousands of dollars out of my paychecks for years for Medicare. Now, they take $96 a month out of my SS check.
Boy, was I blind. Never knew they were going to hit my SS check. I thought I had PRE PAID Medicare coverage.
So, here I am at age 66.....paying $1600 a year for health insurance and $1300 a year for food.
The cost for those who can pay must go up to pay for those who qualify (by whatever means) for subsidized or free health insurance. Like public education, this is a scheme to get the middle class to pay for the poor.
1) More Healthcare
2) Better Healthcare
3) Cheaper Healthcare
The old saying is usually "Pick any 2 of these three". But Obama seemed to be promising all three simultaneously. No intelligent person would believe that to be possible -- but the voters seemed to swallow it.
And the Baucus bill will tax the insurance benefits that your employer provides adding an additional $1000 to $2500 to the average family’s tax bill.