As of now it looks like the final bill will contain taxes on employer paid health benefits to pay for subsidies to low income Americans to buy private insurance and a mandate that everyone have insurance. In other words a bail out for health insurance companies.
There is no popular support for taxes on employer paid health benefits. It is one of many reasons that John McCain went down to a landslide defeat.
No Republican will vote for this. Democrats will take all the blame for a tax increase to pay for a bail out of insurance companies.
It will NOT expand access to health care. It will be very unpopular. If Obama or any other Democrat thinks that AHIP will have their backs they are out of their mind.
Liberals need to block this and save the party from the leadersheep.
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I don't think a federal
I don't think a federal mandate to purchase private health insurance would pass a Constitutional smell test.
Exactly what I have been wondering
It's been in the back of my brain to ask for lawyerly opinions on this.
In fact I have asked elsewhere, w/o response. Tho, I said it in a different way- more like- if enacted, how soon until legal challenge. One the other hand, by state example, there is Mass mandate still in place.
IANAL, but if you are, please expand your comment.
edit- but individual mandates are different than taxes on employer-provided insurance, which seemed to be the issue addressed in the post.
Are you shitting me????
[splutter]
I can't even describe this.
So, to subsidize the people on the ground, they're going to tax the people one rung up the ladder? Are they insane?
Got a link on that? I thought that idea had been shot down.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Gotta Keep Dividing The Masses n/t
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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
There goes any chance for union support
(Although I can't promise our "leadership", like the craven Andy Stern, won't find some doubletalk way to tell us it's OK)
How are those hard-won benefits looking now, Randi?
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
New news?
Hasn't this always been an option they've considered for paying for the uninsured?
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
bad headline!
I forget what my original one was, but the public option does not figure into this. The subsidies won't be for a public option, they will be for vouchers to buy private insurance. the new headline is completely misleading!!!