Saturday, August 15, 2009

Pull my finger for the public option


Pictured: writer of the House health care bill

Obama and company are trying to pull off the scam of the century on health care.

Does your employer pay more than 8% of payroll for health insurance (8% is the proposed employer tax for not providing health insurance)? My bet is they do; a lot more.

Would your employer drop BlueCross or whatever plan you now have, and use the savings to either lower the price of their product/service or give employees a raise? My bet is they would.

Do you think a Medicare-like system will be better for your family than the private plan you now enjoy?

Estimates are that Obamacare will cause a hundred million employees and their families to transfer from private insurance to government insurance.

The Dems like to rail on insurance company profits and executive comp, yet those amounts would be a drop in the bucket compared to the cost of government waste, corruption and rationing costs. All Medicare and Medicaid have done is cost-shift by paying a fraction of what private insurers pay doctors and hospitals.

Choice? More competition? Lower cost? Yeah, pull my finger.

The key to improving health care is HSAs that put control and responsibility on individuals.

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