[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL- Health Care

[Herb Parsons]

Ben,

Why should it be an employer's responsibility to provide health 
insurance to their employees?


Ben Cittadino wrote:
> 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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