"along with your own plans to solve our health insurance problems and the mounting health care costs and entitlement programs that are driving the small businessman out of business and the large corporate employers overseas!!"
Any plan that unlike Bush's, doesn't tax the rich in order to redistribute it to the poor via the IRS tax code. I'm all for getting rid of redundant or useless entitlement programs. That's where Bush should channel his energy. That and on ambulance chasing lawyers that are lousing up insurance costs for everyone. Why didn't he talk about that?
You are either dishonest or ignorant, because he DID mention protecting good doctors from lawsuits! But your anger just overrides facts, doesn't it?
He mentioned something about frivolous lawsuits against the medical profession. The dems didn't like that idea.
"protect good doctors from junk lawsuits by passing medical liability reform."
Busted!
"Any plan that unlike Bush's, doesn't tax the rich in order to redistribute it to the poor via the IRS tax code."
LMAO..WAIT UNTIL YOU GET A READ OF THE DEMS PLANS!!
" I'm all for getting rid of redundant or useless entitlement programs. That's where Bush should channel his energy. That and on ambulance chasing lawyers that are lousing up insurance costs for everyone. Why didn't he talk about that?"
DO you really think that President Bush should 'channel his energy towards entitlement programs and ambulance chasing lawyers' in the middle of a war for our country's very survival?
UNFREAKINBELIEVABLE!!
Companies NEVER gave health insurance to their employees, until right after WW II, when UNIONS used it to blackmail them. It started out in a small way and the unions pressed and pressed and and garroted companies to make the FREE or almost free health insurance larger and larger.
When people get something for nothing, or very little, they tend to misuse and abuse it. That IS what has happened to not only health insurance, but to all medical care in general.
There are a LOT of self employed/entrepreneurs who must pay for their own health insurance and because of the deals and the money big companies pay, these people are getting the fuzzy end of the stick and worse. And all medical costs keep escalating, to boot.
The president's proposal ( which sadly, he probably won't get ), is a TAX DEDUCTION; not, as you claim, a "redistribution of wealth". And its purpose is to get everyone to be more responsible for their own lives and their own health insurance and the costs of it. There is nothing, NOTHING, less Marxist and more CONSERVATIVE, than this plan!
He did speak about stopping the frivolous and out of control lawsuits that are damaging our health care in this nation (tort reform). He got huge applause from Republicans. Zero claps from Dems. No surprise there.