Posted on 08/19/2015 12:02:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Megyn Kelly
Jindal said that it’s just one more cradle to grave plan.
To give us “something terrific”
Written by Mitch McConnell’s ex adviser and George Will’s wife. With assistance from Brad Dayspring. Promoted by NRO, Federalist, Weekly Standard, and WSJ.
You know, all the outsiders on Team Walker. Fighting the establishment. /s
Ignore the naysayers. For years, we have been begging for an alternative plan to Obamacare. Walker comes up with a solid, detailed proposal and naysayers knee jerk about why it can’t and won’t work.
There are some people who will NEVER be satisfied. They’re like liberals who don’t really want solutions to problems like urban blight, they just want to keep the issues alive to keep power and control.
So one major part of the plan is to take the power to regulate insurance companies away from the states and bring it to the federal government. Yet later in his plan Walker says he wants to give the states more control. Which is it?
And the idea that it'll reduce insurance costs has been disproven by the three states that already allow it and the three or four other states that looked into it. The reason why is clear to anyone who has health insurance to begin with. I go to my doctor and she accepts my insurance because she's part of the network and already has an agreement in place for fees and billing. If I were to shop around and find I can save a thousand dollars a year by buying my insurance from Billybob Health Insurance in Texas then I would likely find it next to worthless in Missouri. Why? Because Billybob Health doesn't have a network in Missouri. It has no agreement with doctors and hospitals and labs. It doesn't pay a reduced rate for services. Any claim I filed they would have to pay at the full cost. So why should they sell me insurance if there is no profit in it for them? And why should they go to the time and expense to establish a network in Missouri for a sole client?
I applaud Walker for trying. But his plan has all the costs of Obamacare and almost no savings.
This plan actually takes the IRS out of the equation.
Your tax credit is based on age only.
I want someone to propose that if you get Earned Income Tax Credit, you have to put it into your HSA, you can’t get the money to spend on what ever.
Also, no Earned Income Tax Credit for illegals.
agreed tax credits are just control tools.
tax credits are meaningless to those who do not pay taxes or do not itemize. smoke and mirrors BS.
this is how local state legislators control THEIR campaign contribution patrons.
Walker’s plan would allow brokers to shop everywhere and ramp up competition between insurance companies. It would bust the rackets. Insurance would cost far less (see brokers, auto liability).
But that won’t appeal to an up-and-coming, 40-million-member commie/fascist mob fueled by their government debt/revenues. There may be a time for the following again. Get ready, and don’t ever stop getting ready.
Denazification, cumulative review. Report, 1 April 1947-30 April 1948.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Denazi
People who use the standard deduction who owe taxes can still use tax credits. Some credits are also refundable. Some are not.
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