Right now, employees insured through their employer, or those already on the government dole, perceive themselves as paying next to nothing for their health care. And that comprises the vast majority of Americans.
Employers already pay through the nose for health insurance. It's part of their cost equations already.
The only way to try and avoid massive economic disruption is to change the current cash flow as little as possible, and IMO that means a tax on employers that currently are paying health premiums now.
You're right that it will probably blow up anyway, but that's the path with the greatest possibility of success.
Right now the national dialog on this issue is steeped with economic illiteracy and lack of solid knowledge of numbers. For example, quite a few airheads believe that we could pay for our medical care by simply quitting the war in Iraq. $100 billion, the approximate annual cost of the war, would cover at most a month of single-payer health care. And then there's the next month, and the next...
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- Michael Moore Goes to Washington
- Socialized Healthcare for all will destroy the incintive to work for millions of baby boomers
- Review of reviews of the film
- Americans report their own health experiences on BBC website
- Took my sons last night
- the canadian system will collapse if the USA ever adopts a full single payor system.
- And who says America's future isn't bright?
- "My youngest told me he's going to live in Canada when he moves out of the house."
- I saw the movie "SICKO" today
- I so hope this movie is the kick in the rear Congress needs to finally ACT instead or argue. (n/t)
- Be careful what you wish for.
- That is just simplistic and not true
- "Our current health care system ....works"
- re: "Our current health care system ....works"
- re: "Our current health care system ....works"
- re: "Our current health care system ....works"
- Republicans have had 6 years to use "private solutions"
- Be careful what you wish for.