The GOP has announced their stellar new health care proposal. It sounds like the greatest thing since privatized social security. As if there wasn't enough of a problem with health care coverage in this country, the Republican party is now suggesting we eliminate employer provided health care. That way each individual would be responsible for obtaining their own health care. The government would then compensate by providing tax breaks for those receiving health care.
WOW. So where to even begin with the problems with this one.....
Well for starters, this proposed tax break for health insurance would undoubtedly be offset by the impending tax increase to cover our insurmountable defense costs. Additionally,
people working minimum wage jobs, living pay check to pay check who have their benefits automatically taken out of their paycheck are highly unlikely to use their increased take home money for health care.
Furthermore, all this will cause the insurance companies to do is raise their premiums even higher.Perhaps most important, nothing in this plan suggests this shift in policy would provide health care for a greater number of people. Rather it has been suggested that the number of people who live without health care would be unlikely to really change. In which case, what exactly is the point of shifting to a consumer choice system of health care? Such an adjustment is likely to cause a greater hassle for many people struggling alone to find a health care system suitable to themselves.
WOW. So where to even begin with the problems with this one.....
Well for starters, this proposed tax break for health insurance would undoubtedly be offset by the impending tax increase to cover our insurmountable defense costs. Additionally,
people working minimum wage jobs, living pay check to pay check who have their benefits automatically taken out of their paycheck are highly unlikely to use their increased take home money for health care.
Furthermore, all this will cause the insurance companies to do is raise their premiums even higher.Perhaps most important, nothing in this plan suggests this shift in policy would provide health care for a greater number of people. Rather it has been suggested that the number of people who live without health care would be unlikely to really change. In which case, what exactly is the point of shifting to a consumer choice system of health care? Such an adjustment is likely to cause a greater hassle for many people struggling alone to find a health care system suitable to themselves.
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