[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL- Health Care

[Ben Cittadino]

Tom;

The Obama plan would work as follows:

   * Establishing a new public program that would look a lot like Medicare
for those under age-65 that would be available to those who do not have
access to an employer plan or qualify for existing government programs like
Medicaid or SCHIP. This would also be open to small employers who do not
offer a private plan.
    * Creating a “National Health Insurance Exchange.” This would be a
government-run marketing organization that would sell insurance plans
directly to those who did not have an employer plan or public coverage.
    * An employer “pay or play” provision that would require an employer to
either provide health insurance or contribute toward the cost of a public
plan.
    * Mandating that families cover all children through either a private or
public health insurance plan.
    * Expanding eligibility for government programs, like Medicaid and
SCHIP.
    * Allow flexibility in embracing state health reform initiatives.

Obama would also mandate guaranteed insurability, a generous minimum
comprehensive benefits package such as that required for federal workers,
the ability to take their policy from one job to another (portability) when
it is purchased through the new Medicare-like public plan or the "National
Health Insurance Exchange," and he would require providers to participate in
a new plan to collect and report data about standards of care, the use of
health information technology, and administration.

McCain woiuld do for the Health Insurance industry what he did for wall
stree and the oil companies, less regulation, eliminate state restrictions
on limitations by carriers, and tax the benefit.  Marketplace dynamics will
solve everything.

That's my view.

Thanks, Ben C.

Tom  Dorsey wrote:
> 
> Its been interesting reading the opposing points of view so far.  One
> issue I have not yet seen discussed is the proposal by the McCain campaign
> to tax the health benefits provided by employers to their employees.  For
> many of us who are fortunate enough to receive this benefit, it would seem
> that we will now receive what could be a substantial income tax increase
> in order to redistribute health credits.  Perhaps those of you who follow
> this more closely could explain the difference between this proposal to
> increase taxes and redistribute tax credits and the one referenced below
> (preferably without the inflammatory labels).
>  
> R. Thomas Dorsey
> 450 Montbrook Lane
> Knoxville, TN 37919-2705
> 865-691-5052
> 865-691-9835 (fax)
> 
> 
>>>> On 10/21/2008 at 11:33 AM, in message
>>>> <400985d70810210833g6dc2720blbf7ad6c267fdc983 at mail.gmail.com>, "Brad
>>>> Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> Tax policy?  What's left to discuss?  "Share the wealth", that about
> sums it up, straight from Marx and Mao.  Didn't work for them but
> maybe Obama is the post-history candidate as well as the post-racial
> candidate.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k&eurl=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/ 
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:08 AM, Ben Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry Guys;
>>
>> With two weeks to go before the election, and serious issues to discuss,
>> I
>> will not participate in a debate that leaps from real issues like the
>> Powell
>> endorsement, tax policy and the deficit to silliness like whether Sen
>> Obama
>> is eligible to run.  This thread has run it's course for me.
>>
>> Ben C.
>>
>> Hank-5 wrote:
>>>
>>> For those of you who are interested, here is a link to all of the court
>>> documents.
>>>
>>> http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-paedce/case_no-2:2008cv04083/case_id-281573/ 
>>>
>>> Hank
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/21/08, Tom Bickerstaff <tabick at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I personally met Mr. Berg more than twenty years ago at a Philadelphia
>>>> Rotary Club meeting.  He struck me then as being strongly Democratic. 
>>>> I
>>>> see
>>>> smoke, and usually where there's smoke, there's fire.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyspCRmJv7w 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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