politicsdaily.com — Huber, who is also a United Steel Workers benefits representative, said that based on the health benefits they receive, he and every worker at his plant would be hit by the excise tax on insurance companies now moving through the Senate as a part of health care reform.
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bacon_skodaDec 18, 2009
here's the reason:Every freaking body thinks they are middle class.if you ask anyone, they will say they are middle class.because #1, they don't want to be known as lower class or the poor and #2, they don't want to be known as upper class or rich. the most they'll say is "upper middle class."so what you have is everyone from $10k a year to $1milllion a year saying they are middle class.#3 if they are the upper class or rich, they would not be answering the question, which class are you.
nmessickDec 18, 2009
thats still a flawed approach. Your assuming that private insurance is the reason healthcare is so expensive... the core of the problem is the outright cost of care, not who is paying the bill. We need to be finding ways to make the system more efficient and provide lower costs for everyone - insurance companies included. Even if you took private insurance out of the picture entirly the cost of care is still too expensive, still unaffordable, and still ultimatly paid by you and I.
martalliDec 19, 2009
The Haymarket Affair is also famous for being one of the chapters of the history of the Anarchy movement in America...
bille3Dec 19, 2009
It never started out with the best of intentions. It never started out to "follow the money" of health insurance and health care costs. It never started out as any kind of reform. It never started out at examining every aspect of the medical care industry to find out what was wrong and what was working well.It started out as a take over of the medical industry by government and it has not changed.As Barney Frank recently said "It is not a problem of too much government, it is a problem of too little government".
quaestor44Dec 21, 2009
shhh! This level of thinking has no place on Digg!
trollpatrolDec 22, 2009
Say No to trolls.
vdoogsDec 23, 2009
From <a class="user" href="http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2009/11/24/front/doc4b0c00f4ac73d711638074.txt" rel="nofollow">http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2009/11/2 ...</a>Average U.S. premium for employer-sponsored individual plans (usually split between worker and employer): $4,824.The average american with health insurance has a health plan that is almost half the cost of the taxed plan. Further, because of the restriction that all insurance companies must use 80% of revenues for health care for actual people, in contrast to the 50% some now use, costs should go down. This article is fearmongering teabagger nonsense to the extreme. Stay classy, teabaggers.Also, buried for Blinker1315. Eat s**t and die, you ignoramus.
jdusekDec 25, 2009
The goal of the tax on insurers who sell overpriced plans is to encourage them to offer the same plans at a lower cost. Lower you prices and avoid the tax. What's so hard to understand about that?