Taxes Imposed on Employer-Provided Health Insurance...

is a possible part of the healthcare reform package. If this does happen, I would assume that a lot of employees will definitely go with the public option. I will.


http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/06/08/1956505.aspx

for the public option means there will be no public option.

Just turn up the heat. With any luck, they can impoverish 2/3rds of the American people.

:shrug:

as there are already.

If Baucus gets his "Insurance Company CEO Pocket Lining Act of 2009", every common person in America should oppose it because things will only get worse.

I don't get it.

Which can amount to no change at all

The most progressive "trigger" I've heard yet wouldn't even be examined for seven years, and then basically requires the insurance companies to approve it before it allows a public option.

The "trigger" is effectively a means to kill any public option while still including a public option.

you please break it down for me, LOL?

There are conditions on the public option, though.

First, no public option would be avilable for seven years after passage of the bill.

Second, market conditions have to exist that justify the public option being available (many potential options here and nothing has been set yet). These are so insurmountbale that this condition will never be met (things like X number of insurance companies fail, pricing doesn't increase more than 650% during the seven year period, other shit like that).

Basically it works out to where the public option is included so all teh Congresspersons wioll be able to say that they included a public option, the the conditions that have to be met before implementation of the public option are so odious, that a public option never gets implemented.

In the end, they force everybody to buy insurance and the insurance companies make out like bandits.

contrived. At least I hope not. It would be political death for the Dems if he did.

Companies used to offer health care instead of a wage increase. Taxing insurance benefits would only reduce take-home pay.

The Democrats (including Obama) were all over McCain when he wanted to do this. Fucking hypocritical, corporate-loving assholes.