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Originally Posted by ngdawg
According to those numbers, my family would be eligible for government-backed health insurance.
We pay a lot for coverage($105 a week for the 4 of us), but it's our coverage.
If Washington really wanted to help those of us in the middle, they'd make that $105 a week, et al, eligible for a tax deduction.
I'm glad he didn't sign it.
And when are they gonna stop taxing smokers?? Talk about government sticking its hand in other people's business and trying to dictate what to do....it'd serve them right if every smoker stopped.
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so...am I correct in assuming that you are indifferent to the plight of families seeking health insurance who have a member with a pre-existing medical condition, are not eligible for a group plan offered by an employer, and or who live in one of the majority of states that have no cap on health care insurance premiums or a law requiring insurers to accept applicants who have pre-exisitng conditions, and cover them?
What kind of a country do you want to live in....one where people are bankrupted by illness....the politicians who you support were not willing to exempt them from bankruptcy "reform"....or a country like tiny Denmark...population under 6 million, or little Canada...with about 30 million residents....both of those countries manage to provide health coverage to all.....
Is the "tude....."I got mine"....really what I read in your post?
Guess the author:
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....I have commented before on the problems with <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/archives/000045.htm">central planning</a> in health care. I certainly am not convinced that a government-run system is the answer, but I do agree with Krugman that there are serious problems with our health insurance system, particularly in the market for individually-purchased (non-group) coverage.
After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that “choice” wasn’t much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own.
We discovered that the <a href="https://www.carefirst.com/eSales/resultset.jsp?quid=_GYNwJ5DFQoPtm6bzSKgPycO_1093605424454">most generous plans</a> in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness.
With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.
In the end, we decided to purchase a very high-deductible plan (sold by Golden Rule Insurance Co.) coupled with a tax-sheltered Medical Savings Account (MSA). We couldn’t qualify for the preferred rate because Golden Rule says I am underweight. Hmph! In any case, while Krugman and most Democrats don’t seem to like MSAs, in our case we were glad they were an option....
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...and the "husband" mentioned above, is somewhat of an expert on health economics:
http://www.rand.org/pubs/authors/m/malkin_jesse_d.html