Sen. Dianne Feinstein said last month: "I'm ready for people to come and say, 'Look, here's our plan to cover 46 million uninsured people, and here's how we pay for it: A, B, C, D. That has to happen.' "
A. Create a health insurance exchange: The federal government should create a system to offer standard benefit health insurance packages and impartial information about them so individuals could choose what best fits their needs.
B. Tax employer-paid health benefits: But only the excess over the low-price plan, the one offering the standard benefits for the fewest bucks. The fact that employees today can take advantage of unlimited tax benefits on health plans costs the federal government more than $260 billion per year.
C. Convert Medicare to a similar model: Create an insurance exchange for government-paid health care and offer beneficiaries a voucher. Help them choose among the competing subsidized plans. The exchanges would follow rules similar to the employer-funded plan exchange described in A.
D. End employer-based health care: Once health expenditures have slowed to the nationwide rate of income growth, phase in subsidies for everyone at the cost of the lowest-priced plan in their market.
As this happens, health insurance would no longer be connected to jobs.
Government would pay for health insurance for all with a broad-based tax on consumption, like the value added tax in Europe.Senator Feinstein's solution is to give us more types of taxation. This Value Added Tax tax is aimed at every American, not just those making over $250,000. We cannot afford this type of governance. Our leaders on both sides of the aisle have forgotten they are paid, handsomely, to represent our wishes. Americans of all political persuasions are sick of this attempt to turn us into Canada, Sweden, Holland or Britain. There is a reason that many times the number of people from all countries emigrate to the United States, yet very few Americans choose to permanently leave to go to any other country. If there are Representatives and Senators who truly desire to have this version of health insurance and a VAT then Sen. Feinstein and all the rest of Congress should pack their belongings and move above the 49th Parallel and leek to represent the citizens of Canada. Then they can have everything they want and allow us to repair the damage politicians have done to our nation. fire them all!
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