“Big businesses WANT their REPEAL of OCARE and TAX CUTS!!! “
Actually big business wants full single payer government run health care. They want to unload the cost of employer paid share of health care on the taxpayer and employees much as they unloaded defined benefit pension plans in the 1990’s in favor of employee paid 401K plans. When the pension plan shift occurred, employers originally matched or supplemented employee 401K payments. Over time the employer matches were reduced or eliminated. Big business wants the same thing to occur with employer paid health care.
As for taxes big business wants a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 15%, a favorable rate (10%) for repatriation of foreign profits, and preservation of the favorable individual tax rates for “carried interest”. In reality, big business and the Chamber of Commerce could care less about cuts in rates for individuals. It is something they give lip service to in order to get support from middle class voters for lower corporate rates.
“Actually big business wants full single payer government run health care. They want to unload the cost of employer paid share of health care on the taxpayer and employees ...”
The latter does not necessitate the former.
ANY company in America could — Monday morning — announce that they no longer offer health insurance as a benefit; that employees would need to arrange health insurance for themselves in the open market prior to close of upcoming open enrollment.
In fact, if I had it MY way, it’d be out-and-out illegal for companies to offer health insurance as a benefit. Since when should the signature of one HR Director limit the free market options of every employee of any organization?
Since never, is the answer most are afraid to speak aloud.
Since when does a health insurance provider’s acquisition of that one, treasured HR Director’s signature promote reduced policy premiums in any way, shape or form?
Since never has ANY one-signature/many-customers model promoted cost-lowering competition in any market.
Companies — especially large corporations — offering health insurance as a benefit to their employees is one thing that is continuing to support premiums at existing high — and future higher — levels; it’s an anti-free market reality that benefits ONLY those who would eventually bind us all in the chains of a single payer system.
But knock that stick out of corporate hands, tell insurers they cannot any longer score 20,000 customers on the signature of ONE powerful corporate Director — force insurers to go mano a mano with Mr. and Mrs. American Employee...
Brother, you haven’t SEEN panic like that would unleash in the health insurance universe. But it would, ultimately, be GOOD panic for consumers.
Oh, and — for good measure — repeal Federal restrictions that mitigate insurers competing across State lines.