http://www.eckernet.com/2009/06/deep_thoughts_with_kevin-48.html Pissing you off and making you laugh since 2002 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:55:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.eckernet.com/2009/06/deep_thoughts_with_kevin-48.html/comment-page-1#comment-5034 J. Ewing Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:15:26 +0000 http://www.eckernet.com/?p=3635#comment-5034 Just so you know, McCain was the first one brave enough to float a very common reform proposal, of taxing employer health benefits and then giving a tax credit to EVERYBODY to buy health insurance with it, wherever they wanted. That would pretty much have put the kibosh on employer-paid care (except for the largest corporate group purchasers) but would have put in place a government-free private system with all of the wondrous benefits thereof, and would have phased in universal access, though not necessarily universal coverage (you have to buy health insurance to get the tax credit). Obama is simply going that one better; government taxes your health benefit, keeps the money, and then you have to go begging to the government to get your health care. They're simply assuring that nobody gets any better care than, say, a poop-picker-upper in Bangladesh. Just so you know, McCain was the first one brave enough to float a very common reform proposal, of taxing employer health benefits and then giving a tax credit to EVERYBODY to buy health insurance with it, wherever they wanted. That would pretty much have put the kibosh on employer-paid care (except for the largest corporate group purchasers) but would have put in place a government-free private system with all of the wondrous benefits thereof, and would have phased in universal access, though not necessarily universal coverage (you have to buy health insurance to get the tax credit). Obama is simply going that one better; government taxes your health benefit, keeps the money, and then you have to go begging to the government to get your health care. They’re simply assuring that nobody gets any better care than, say, a poop-picker-upper in Bangladesh.

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