[xcamel]

Great - now when you FIRE somebody, you still have to pay 55% or 65% of their healthcare - retroactively to last september.. This could cost an 'average' employer 5-6000 a month in this economy.

The job-killers continue...

[indcons]

Healthcare sops (and related costs) to the unions brought about Chrysler’s and GM’s current problems. For all practical purposes, American car companies are primarily health insurance providers who ALSO make cars.

[pabianice]

This Vietnam vet notes that part of this plan involves slashing funding for the Veterans’ Administration’s medical care for vets and quadrupling the premiums and copays paid by retired military for TRICARE. The only part of the economy to be cut in the next three years is spending for military training, manning, maintenance, and healthcare. Could Obama be any more traitorous and loathsome?

[nmh]

The problem is health care is over priced.

Seeing how lousy the economy is ... and the AGE of these folks ... should they be denied health care coverage after 18 months? Yes, this will cost employers more but should they be without coverage when atleast they WORKED and out of no choice of their own are out on the street? Are they less valuable because of their AGE? Look at Medicare and ILLEGAS being given health care. How do you address this with NO INCOME but a measly unemployment income coming in?

[Sender]

I agree that this would be a job killer for employers, but I have also seen for myself that COBRA is not affordable for the average person anyway. When I was let go in 2005, I was offered COBRA coverage for thousands of dollars per year, at a time when I had no job. My only option was for my family to have no insurance. COBRA in its present form is a joke, unless one is somehow receiving more medical benefits than the absurd costs, for example if someone needed to continue very expensive cancer care.

What really worries me is full-blown, single-payer socialized healthcare. We will all have COBRA then...as they take most of our paychecks in taxes.

[pierrem15]

Just think of it as the French public worker retirement plan (like CFN): you get to retire at 54, because that’s when many employers will lower their liabilities by laying-off older employees.

[socialismisinsidious]

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