Posted on 12/27/2014 4:07:51 AM PST by Kaslin
The government should stay the hell out of our medical care system! The more they mess about with it, the worse it gets.
Don’t kill the “Cadillac Tax”.
KILL THE WHOLE OBAMACARE MESS.
Amen. Boner et. al. will get rid of the really nasty parts of the bill but leave us dealing with the rest of the merely bad issues. The GOPe is worse than the DNC; at least we know the DNC’s agenda.
At least the EXEMPT will not have to pay this,
on the way to their brothels, al Qaeda meetings,
and banks. The EXEMPT created this two-tier tax
system, with them .... above the Law (SSDD).
They cannot kill this hidden cost because they have to use that cost (expenditure) to pump up the GDP growth.
Yes, that’s ‘growth’ in their mind.
LOL ... all Union Members certainly want the tax stopped. The last time checked most Unions support democrats overwhelmingly. Union Members shafted by democrats .... LOL.
Last I checked, most Union healthcare plans were considered “Cadillac.” This means that union members will be most affected.
I think we should leave this tax in place. It will only result in more Union members abandoning the Democrat party. These people, formerly known as “Reagan Democrats” will soon be known as “Cruz Democrats.”
“KILL THE WHOLE OBAMACARE MESS.”
The Cadillac tax matters only to those with union or employer plans. For those having to buy private plans, and absorbing huge premium and deductible increases combined with less benefits, Obamacare itself is a huge new tax burden. If you aren’t eligible for a subsidy, the huge cost increases to the individual are a crushing tax.
Boehner and McConnell have no intention of ending Obamacare. I expected a show vote to end the ACA by the new Congress which Obama would promptly veto. Now I’m not sure the Republicans will even bother with the show vote. Likely they’ll kill the Cadillac tax and the medical device tax. They’ll have the Federal Reserve print more money to cover the lost revenue needed to pay for the huge Obamacare bureaucracy and subsidies.
The only way to defund Obamacare is separate it from the reset of the federal budget. Pass spending bills by department one by one early in the year and sent them to Obama for signature or veto. Get his signatures on the rest of federal spending before sending the Obamacare funding bill to him. He can veto it or not as he pleases, the rest of the government will be funded.
The fear is groundless. By 2018 there will be no Obamacare
Obamacare will end by July 17 2015
Beyond that point the market will provide insurance modified by the absence of lawyers gaming the system
GOPe agenda is to off load employer health care costs to the government,import more tech workers on HB 1 visas to undercut American tech workers wages,import more illegals to undercut wages American’s wages and give illegals all kinds of government benefits to attract these illegal workers at no cost to the members of the Chamber of Commerce. That is the agenda and why they will work with Democrats and attempt to crush any conservative political agenda from seeing the light of day.
NO....KILL THE WHOLE DAMN THING!
Don’t kill that tax yet, let it burn the unions that got the bastard elected first!
Let the idiot unions get stung by what they promote and we can kill the whole damn thing. Mostly government employees in CA, NY, and other socialist $*itholes will be effected, they can learn a lesson here.
When their gold plated plans come under attack they will gladly feed the expanded Medicaid to the wolves.
If you want to kill the entire thing you can’t just exempt the parts liberals like.
KILL THE WHOLE ILLEGAL OBAMACARE MESS.
I wonder....will this have any effect on Tricare, the military coverage????
Scared in GA
It better not
I can just hear the County Employee’s screaming when this happens. They bitch about every charge that affects their benefits now, this one will be BIG. No doubt they will want a health pay increase to offset their “loss” of benefits.
Employer-paid medical insurance only exists today because: (1) the government allows private-sector employers to deduct the cost of this insurance, and (2) the government treats this benefit differently than almost any other one by allowing employees to be insured without reporting it as a taxable benefit on their tax returns.
So in effect, the government heavily subsidizes your medical care ... which means that it's hard to get all worked up when that same government imposes a tax on it. There are a lot of things wrong with the ACA, but this "Cadillac Tax" is far from the worst part of it.
I would almost guarantee, that under Obamacare’s current plan, Tricare and any other military healthcare would eventually be rolled up under Obamacare. The same for Medicare.
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