Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to re: "I've got mine but I'd like everybody else to have theirs, too"

That's somewhat naive.
TB — (archived)

When the government starts paying for health care, and employers aren't carrying that load any more, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the savings to be passed on down to the employees. Cynical, maybe, but probably true.

This is why I have said in other posts that the only plausible way to shift from what we have now to something more single-payer is to pay for it with taxes on those employers who are paying the health insurance premiums now.

While the theoretical ideal would be to pay for it on taxes on everybody, if you take employer insurance away and suddenly stick a huge tax on the employees, they will burn Washington to the ground.

The main problem is that nobody, and I mean NOBODY, has sat down and actually done the hard numbers on where the money would be flowing, how much is involved, and what it would be accomplishing. I can do calculations, but they are only approximations, and the real numbers would take a huge study of some kind.

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