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Heck I would be satisfied at this point with a Democratic party that went after McSame with the same vigor they are going after each other!
Answer: It doesn't, but it gives the owner of the store another fantastic tax cut.
Our family insurance on our own is over $23,000 a month. One small child, all are healthy. What is a $5000 credit to us?
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Unfortunately, we don't really have a choice at this time. We either take what our companies provide, buy our own (cost is prohibitive) or we pressure our politicians to revise the system. The problem here is also that our country is pretty much bankrupt leaving us no monies for any Health Care Reform.
I swear Canada is looking better to me every single day...
"let's go to the tape bob"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk
"100 years in Iraq is fine with me"
put this in everyone's mail box...
this war has bankrupted america..
.and bin laden is somewhere in a cave laughing his ass off
Let's see. $5,000, times, say, 100 million Americans, equals a guaranteed 2009 income of $500 billion for the health insurance industry. That is one powerful lobby that has McCain by the nads.
Luckily, by next week, he'll have forgotten that he ever said it.
I pay $85 every two weeks for family coverage with Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal. I pick the doctor, I pick the hospital. DON'T believe the crap that we can't make the American system work. The Medical Robber Barons don't want the system to work because they will lose hugh profits. American health care is operated as an extortion racket by corporate goons.
this is what will bring mc cain down...
the dems won the 06 elections on the anti war vote....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk
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You are VERY lucky, most don't have such a cheap and easy health care program, especially IF you have a preexisting condition. What on earth can we, as mere humans, expect to do to improve the situation?
Many states have regulatory bodies that oversee insurance companies. That usually set caps on rate of return and premiums. Their true worth is in cases where the paperwork is public record. If you knew what the assholes that run the medical insurance companies are raking off the table you would be marching in the streets. If you think the oil companies are making a killing you would be shocked by the windfalls the insurance/drug/medical equipment complex is raking in. Cross ownership and price fixing along with refusal to remove bad doctors who drive malpractice insurance to astronomical levels.
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Many of the regulatory bodies that oversaw insurance companies either no longer exist or they are vastly decreased. What was once a viable and very helpful program in California is now gone thus that "type" of help is nonexistent. Many people lost their policies or they became just far too expensive to keep up.
I know all too well how corporations run a muck with greed in the insurance biz and what has happened to the system is positively shameful. Citing the greed of these companies does NOT revise the issues of poor, minimal or no health care for our people.
It is great that your family is so lucky, but you are just that, with many if not most, having little choice in what to do.
The way I figure it, if this works like other tax credits, somebody making around $44K a year (or more) with no kids, student loans, mortgae interest, or any other kind of deduction or credit could probably get the whole $5,000 back. If your making less, you get less back regardless of how much your insurance would cost.
So this plan MIGHT give a little relief to everyone except those who need it most, but it doesn't even acknowledge, much less solve, the underlying problems with our health care system and will probably make the deficit worse.
All you can do is educate the people who vote. When voters wake up and realize that they get what they will accept, they might start making more effort to select better Representatives. The most harmful scam ever pulled by the powerful is to convince most Americans that our problems can't be fixed and we just have to learn to live with the pain. Most bitch and moan and vote the same people back into office time after time regardless of the lack of improvement. Vote out All incumbents until we find some who can produce results the voters want.
It's done with cultural WEDGE issues and the Republicans have it down to a science...
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Sorry, that last comment was for you...my fingers stopped working.
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Sorry, but I have been home sick this week and I think it's time for hot tea and cinnamon toast (and maybe a bit of brandy!).
Nice seeing you again, please do be well!
Sweet buttered Baby Jeebus! I'm gonna vote for McSame for sure now!
/snark
OK, I'm an accounting student, and a big know it all, so I just have to point out that a "tax credit" and a "tax deduction" are two very different things - you get more money back from a credit than you do for a deduction.
The way I figure it, if this works like other tax credits, somebody making around $44K a year (or more) with no kids, student loans, mortgae interest, or any other kind of deduction or credit could probably get the whole $5,000 back. If your making less, you get less back regardless of how much your insurance would cost.
Have you priced private health insurance lately. I had to. With the premiums, deductible, co-pays etc., the best I could do would have meant $16,000 out of pocket for just me, all by myself, assuming I ever had to use the plan. If I didn't use it at all, it would have cost $7,800. Even if I were making $44,000, I couldn't afford it. So, I couldn't pay it upfront, meaning I wouldn't get the tax credit.
In John McCain's world, "middle class" is someone who makes over $200,000 a year. Remember, this is the guy who said most Americans wouldn't go to AZ to pick lettuce for $50 an hour -- or $100,000 a year.
Here is the pefect example of how the GOP works. Get a 527 to paint a candidate into a corner. The Democrats have to get just as mean and dirty if they expect to win in November.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9933....
I'm fucking FED UP with people in the governmnet whining how "government doesn't work", then get the hell out pissant, and let someone in there that believes there ARE some things the government is BEST at.
Jesus...a 10 year old would know the problems wtih his plan
Then again, I wouldn't expect a pampered guy like McCain to understand the plight of ordinary people. There has not been a single day in his adult life where he's had to actually pay for healthcare.
"Let them eat tax credits" remains the clarion call of those who've never been poor.
Putz.
And his plan doesn't even address (in fact, it Makes it WORSE) the biggest overhead in medical costs...the adminsitration. More money gets wasted finding out WHO is going to pay WHAT in the current sytem. McCain gets way above average through his "job" as congressman....Congress has a fantastic plan, in contrast with MOST of the other ones.
You must be a lobbyist for the insurance companies. Everyone else is wise to the bullshit.
BRILLIANT! POTD! :-) I want to see some shirts featuring that at the Americablog store.
I am mindful of AJ's exhortation to try to come to common ground with folks whose opinins differ from mine, but what you've expressed so far appears, well...ignorant and hard-hearted are the most charitable ways to describe it.
Health care is a human right, and should NOT be limitless opportunity for big business to fuck over the little guy! Guess that's why life expectancies in the US are falling, while "Old Yurp!" is doing just fine.
You don't know what you are missing.