Under John Mccain’s health care plan, millions of Americans may end up dead.
For all his talk about lowering taxes and making insurance more affordable, Mccain’s plan to revise the tax code is in fact an act of class warfare. Here’s how it works:
Up until now, the healthcare coverage that Americans get from their employers has been tax exempt. But John Mccain wants to do away with that. If elected, Mccain plans to count the coverage that companies provide for their employees as taxable income. Meaning, if you make 40,000 dollars per year, and you have a 10,000 dollar insurance policy, you get taxed as if you have a 50,000 dollar income.
This is from a conservative who believes in lower taxes?
This is from a maverick who wants to put the Country First instead of special interests (see: insurance companies.)
John Mccain’s health care plan proves he is a liar, a fraud, and a son of a bitch.
What effect will this have?
- For starters, many employers will decide to stop providing health care for their employees
- This will force millions of Americans to buy their own private insurance coverage
- Because insurance companies don’t want to cover patients with pre-existing conditions, this means that many Americans who were covered by their employers won’t be able to get any insurance at all.
- In order to offset the change, Mccain plans to give individuals a $2500 tax credit to help them buy insurance
What good does more money to buy insurance do when nobody will sell you it in the first place? John Mccain’s healthcare plan will hurt everyone who isn’t wealthy and in good health. Some people will call this realistic fiscal policy, I call it inhumane and criminal.
If you’re lucky enough to be in perfect health and can afford a quality insurance plan, then good for you. The rest of us should start praying that John Mccain never becomes President.
October 7, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Hey Tim, guess what? Under John McCain’s healthcare plan, millions of Americans not only may die, they will die.
Because everyone dies.
Come on, man. Get real.
France has had socialized medicine for years and they are already at the point where elderly patients are systematically ignored for treatment because they “are going to die anyway.” Go look it up. It’s tough if you don’t read French, but their liberal papers have been covering it for years.
This is another classic example of you opening your mouth about a subject you know nothing about because you have never worked for a corporation and have never been the beneficiary of something like health insurance.
I work for one of the 50 American states’ largest companies who insures over 30,000 Americans.
If John McCain is elected and he taxes healthcare benefits, what makes you think my company – or any other – is going to stop insuring us? The only thing this will change is a number on my W-2. Instead of including only the wages paid to me as my gross income, my gross income will be the sum of my wages paid to me plus the value of my annual health insurance (which I already pay $260 a month for electively, by the way – it is not required to buy company subsidized health insurance), which is publicly listed on my company intranet as approximately $9800. This means that I will owe approximately $4000 extra in taxes.
I agree with you that taxing health insurance benefits is just about the dumbest (and most expensive) tax hike imaginable, which is why I have confidence that people on both sides of the aisle in congress wouldn’t even write such a bill let alone put it on McCain’s desk.
But companies aren’t going to stop insuring people. The taxes will be on the employees, not the employer. It’s already possible for me to insure my fiancee, for example, using my company’s health insurance, but because she is not my wife or my tax dependent, the benefits aren’t tax free. It would only cost me an extra $30 a month to add her to the plan, but then I’d get hit with an extra $9800 on my W-2 which translates to almost $400 a month. She can get cheaper private insurance elsewhere (cheaper because she’s 23 and in good health).
It’s one thing to spout ideology. It’s another thing to misinform.
October 7, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Evan, you don’t know anything about me. You don’t know what I’ve gone through trying to get insurance, and you don’t know my employment history. If you want to disagree on policy that’s fine, but you don’t know a fucking thing about me so keep your mouth shut about it. I’m going to start ignoring you and deleting everything you write very soon if you keep up this personal attack b.s.
October 8, 2008 at 11:31 pm
I knew it would come to this, Tim. Before you delete this comment like you deleted my other, I want you to remember four things-
First, you write a blog. Deleting comments is an immature thing to do because it shows to the world that you can dish it out but you can’t take it. By extension, this is why people hate Fox News so much. Conservatives are routinely exposed to liberal views but liberals can’t stand ever hearing the opposition. I wonder why that is?
Second, what happened to free speech? Do you support it? No? If this were a newspaper, would this make you a censor?
Third, if you really need to delete comments because you either can’t respond to them or they’re making you look bad, consider writing about things that won’t inspire comments like these to begin with.
Finally, you found me, Tim. I didn’t find you. You opened this door, and now you have to close it again because you can’t handle having someone come in and disagree with you, or show the world why what you post is nonsense.
This will be the last comment that I write on your blog. You had potential, but now you’re just devolving into the world of broadcast media. Write shit, delete dissenting opinions, and leave any fact checks totally unchallenged. you’ve got a bright career ahead of you in journalism. Too bad nobody pays attention to journalists like this anymore.
Best of luck to you, kid.
October 8, 2008 at 11:51 pm
More reactionary conservative resentment BS.
First of all, I have never deleted a comment that you’ve written unless it involved a personal attack by me. I made very clear a few months ago that this was my policy, to delete comments of a personal nature, whether directed at me, or anyone else. You offended on both accounts several times.
I believe in Free Speech- but not slander.
Third, I didn’t ask you to come to my blog, and I won’t miss you if you never come by again.
I am not a journalist. I am a blogger. I am not trying to be a journalist. So stop getting upset when I break the rules of journalism. I never called myself a journalist. I write my political opinions and if I don’t feel like writing a research essay on the subject, then I won’t.
You need to adjust your expectations.
You are welcome to keep the discussion up, if you refrain from personal attacks on me or other readers.