Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

According to the most recent plan, employers who do not provide insurance will have to pay $750 per employee to the government if they do not provide it.

And how would the insurance companies take a cut if companies fire them, and fund the public option instead?

According to a few of the plans, the only people who will pay extra taxes will be people who make more than $150k -$250k, depending on the plans, not people who pay less. This is an oppressive tax on people who have worked hard to make money to pay for those who make less. I would be all for an across the board tax for all incomes, a flat tax if you will, just to pay for health care for all. Say everyone pays a flat 5% from any income they make to pay into the system, I would be perfectly ok with that, but that is not what is being floated.

It was floated (a new payroll tax), and I would have been fine with that as well, but IMHO, a tax would have to be considerably higher than 3% to oppress someone making $1 million.