[Wage Slave]

I want 100% of the cost shifted to me. Divorce it from the employers and let us all fend for ourselves in a free market.

[svcw]

Why shouldn’t people pay for their own health insurance?

[Huskrrrr]

Let’s see...... a job or free healthcare hmmmmmmm.......

[OrangeHoof]

It should be noted what employer-paid health insurance was meant to be - a perk offered to lure and keep better employees. It was not meant to be a replacement for people paying for their own health care. I don’t see a problem with employers passing along more of the cost. And, no, I’m not an employer.

What I do see a problem with is government overregulation and mandating that private insurance cover x y and z regardless of whether the insured want this or not. It’s a precursor to government-run health care like Canada and Britain which feature waiting lists and (despite their denials) “death panels”.

[Don Corleone]

And this was...lets hear it now...”UNEXPECTED?”

[Drango]

Who knew? (Everyone)

[Brugmansian]

employers shifting health care costs to workers

Yeah right. Employers have had this huge pot of money that is not filled because of the labor of their employees. Now they have decided not to dip into this pot to buy health care insurance for workers.

[NoGrayZone]

My employer paid for my health insurance 100% (was part of the package).

Now I pay a piddly $50 a paycheck. Big whoop dee doo. I would smack myself upside the head if I EVER dared to complain about that!

[VeniVidiVici]

I was at my doc’s office yesterday. I’ve had no clue which side of the aisle the doc, his two nurses and desk chick belonged to.

So when checking out at the desk they were all standing there and we were talking about Facebook and Obama’s name came up.

Almost in unison they all threw-up their hands and did one of those Archie Bunker “Aw, geez. Did you have to go and bring that guy up?”

I was pleasantly surprised.

[GailA]

Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke;

What the hell could possibly go wrong?

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope

[WOBBLY BOB]

The new message:’Improve’ health care, don’t talk cost

Key White House allies are dramatically shifting their attempts to defend health care legislation, abandoning claims that it will reduce costs and deficit, and instead stressing a promise to “improve it.” The messaging shift was circulated this afternoon on a conference call and PowerPoint presentation organized by FamiliesUSA — one of the central groups in the push for the initial legislation. The call was led by a staffer for the Herndon Alliance, which includes leading labor groups and other health care allies. It was based on polling from three top Democratic pollsters, John Anzalone, Celinda Lake, and Stan Greenberg.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0810/The_new_message_Improve_health_care_dont_talk_cost.html?showall

I can’t wait for the rationing they also claimed won’t happen.