Like Ann Coulter said last night let 90% buy insurance when they want where they want from the private insurance free market.
I think it's possible to use the tax code to pay for a lot of it if not all of the rest of the 10% that can't pay for their own insurance.
Take excise tax for instance.Many us pay it based on ten percent of sales.
Big oil pays billions.
Let them have a double deduction for buying healthcare vouchers and the good press that goes along with it and who knows you could have the problem solved!
We need to start thinking in terms of free market solutions instead of big govt. socialistic solutions for the financial problems of the country,IMHO.
Turns out your buddy Wallace’s claim Meals on Wheels was cut from the budget was fake:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3536101/posts
It is a state/local block grant program and he was lying again.
Even with Obamacare, we still have over 30 million uninsured. I wonder why no one is bringing this up.
Ding ding ding!
That's another important cogwheel in the reform-machine...the privatization of MediCaid.
They talk about "block grants to the states to administer their version of MediCaid. The ultimate efficiency is to require all state carriers to participate, and provide the same "MediCaid-product".
It's much less expensive for the state to support subsidized premiums (rather than directly paying claims)
States should have a "means tested" method, where the participants are required to pay something. There should be a sliding scale subsidy for various income levels, from almost complete support for the truly needy, to almost zero (full price) for those that may not have an employer plan available.
Additionally, patients would also be required to have a co-pay (just like everyone else) to avoid the main issue in provider abuse....over-utilization.
Of course this coverage, would not be as quite good as that offered out in the free market. Coupled with the many competing plans of affordable premium insurance, it would encourage former medical-welfare recipients to enter the private marketplace, and further enhance the "health" of both the group and the individual markets.
This whole healthcare thing is so sad.
What’s sad is half (counting dead people and illegals) of voting America fell for the ‘magic negro’ not once but twice.
Then there’s Ryan,McCain,Snow,Graham...and an assortment of self serving sell out RINOs.
Ugh!
This whole healthcare thing is so sad.
What’s sad is half (counting dead people and illegals) of voting America fell for the ‘magic negro’ not once but twice.
Then there’s Ryan,McCain,Snow,Graham...and an assortment of self serving sell out RINOs.
Ugh!
I get tired of Democrats comparing apples to oranges.
The new healthcare plan is not mandatory with penalties if citizens don’t buy insurance. So yes, there could be more uninsured to begin with. However, freedom to buy across state lines and tort reform and no mandatory coverage like birth control pills will let insurers create plans that are a lot cheaper. All incentives to stimulate competition.
Texas claims they lowered insurance costs something like 60-70% because of tort reform and they have more doctors moving there. Which means insurance isn’t the real benefit, it’s healthcare by physicians and hospitals, etc.