Both health care and retirement need to be disconnected from employment. Other than that, the only thing the government needs to do is make sure those considered uninsurable are covered by something. Forcing this upon business is one of the reasons jobs are fleeing the country as it is.
“Estimates suggest that an employer mandate could cost 1.6 million jobs over the first five years.”
I know mine will be one of them. My boss has already said that this would be the straw that broke the camel’s back - and she’ll simply have to close the business.
A government-run plan,Danger,Warning,Alarm,hide your money.
this plan requires the ability to get blood from stones. How is an unemployed individual or street person supposed to comply with the “mandate” to have insurance? They would all go on the government plan for free is my guess. And how can this be enforced? We cannot even enforce existing state laws requiring drivers to carry auto insurance.
The insurance industry is already controlled by state government down to the gnat’s ass; all it will take is one more small step by the fed to make it go over the cliff.
These liberal fools think that anything they do never has consequences. Something they NEVER consider. Their lust and madness for power and control prevents any form of logic or sanity in what they do.
The secret here is the “public option”. The government as no requirement for financial reserves as insurers do. The government is, ironically, not really regulated, in fact they set the regulations on everyone else.
By using Medicare or even Medicaid (about .30 on the dollar) reimbursement for services, and no oversight, the government will very quickly take over private sector insurance by under-pricing it, and throwing onerous regulations on “competition” in the private sector.
This back door to single payor “secret” is being opening lauded and hailed by socialist politicos to their supporters right now.
We must stop “the public option”. The country will simply fail under the weight of a single payor health plan for everyone. We already can’t handle the debt O has racked up already.
My family of four is above that level, which means not only no subsidies for the likes of me and I get to subsidize other people's health care. Not much different from the way it already is except on a much grander scale and fewer chances of me living a longer life. I'll be 64 next month, guess I might as well hang it up.
All this to give 4 million people welfare?
Will the Federal Employees have to be under this plan also? How about Congress? Methinks our “Masters In Charge” somehow will be exempt.
Isn’t it wonderful how Communists America is making progress. /s/
>> The government would undertake comparative-effectiveness and cost-effectiveness research
Yeah... they’re the renowned experts on those topics, aren’t they.
I fear this is gonna end really, really badly.
The cost effectiveness provisions are simply rationing by another name. Seniors should be up in arms as they will be the ones denied hip replacements, pacemakers and even cancer treatment because their life expectancy is too short to make such procedures “cost effective”.