John Edwards and Health Care Reform. Health Insurance for All Again!

John Edwards, another democratic candidate, is calling for health care reform! Yeah, let the games begin. Maybe this time the rhetoric will actually turn into action. He wants to get rid of Bush's tax cuts for people who make over $200,000. Since I don't make over $200,000, I have no problem with this. :)

John Edwards wants to raise some taxes and cut loopholes for the wealthy to help pay for health care and health insurance reform article on Yahoo.

I do have a problem with the fact that 47 million Americans are uninsured. If you don't have a problem with this fact, then you should check out Bush's plan. Even he says that Americans who receive health insurance through work, because of tax breaks that companies get to provide it, don't have any idea of how much it costs. I have to agree. If everybody understood how much health insurance really costs then people would be taking to the streets!

Right now, only self employed people, contractors, etc. who provide their own health insurance - or the 47 million uninsured seem to grasp the price. Maybe others do, and they don't start their own businesses and are held hostages to corporate America because of ... ta da....health insurance.

It's time to address the issue.

Bush Plan May signal the end of Employer Based Health Insurance!

Wow, the Chicago Tribute thinks the new Bush Plan may signal the end of employer based health insurance. Well, you know I disagree with Bush the second on so many things, but for once, I see his point - and I'm sure it's an unpopular one. How come you have to do this to me just when I'm all set to start shouting HILLARY!

LINK TO CHICAGO TRIBUTE ARTICLE

Points to Ponder that are bound to be unpopular, but I sort of get them....

First, he'd eliminate the tax breaks for health insurance and treat it like any other form of compensation. That would make consumers more sensitive to costs, his advisers said.

Second, the president would create a tax deduction for health insurance, similar to the existing deduction for having a child. Families would get a deduction of $15,000 beginning in 2009; individuals would could deduct $7,500. Annual increases would be tied to inflation.

Consumers would get the full value of the deduction, no matter how much they actually spent. Spending in excess of the deduction's amount would be taxed as ordinary compensation.

Comments? Hate it? Love it? Do you at least GET that we need to make employees aware of what a benefit they are getting in health insurance? I do.

Health Insurance - Am I dreaming - Bush wants us to have it!

I must be dreaming, or maybe the President reads my blogs!

Bush addressed the huge problem of uninsured Americans and wants to change the tax code so that people are more aware of the cost insurance, and so that people can get liberal tax deductions for getting their families covered.

USA TODAY ARTICLE ON BUSH'S PLAN

Forty Seven Million Americans do not have health insurance! That is one out of 6 of us, and to me - living in an advanced society - this is unacceptable.