Statement: we get to keep our health insurance we like, even with the government plan.
My thoughts: A good portion of us are on health plans our employers give us. Now sometimes these plans are not good, but in the case of medium size companies, and smaller ones the plans are usually the best the employer can find, because the owner is also on the plan. In the case of larger employers, it usually is not too bad as well, because when you have a larger pool to of people, you can get good coverage, cheaper. My own business had bad expensive insurance for a year because we were too small, until we got into a group of like companies nationally, and now are on really good insurance which we pay about 500.00 a month....in this day reasonable. I like one of the ideas thrown out about allowing small companies to bind together to get better insurance. That is essentially what our company has done because of our business, we could enroll in an organization that has nationwide coverage.
So I understand that the government will tax employers, and people with a 8% tax if they do not go with the government plan? Or am I getting that confused with something else? Help on this one, with FACTS, not gobblygook from either the right or left.
The one reason that I think that passing with this will result EVENTUALLY in government's total control is that employers will say, well heck, I will just pay the x% tax, instead of worrying about insurance companies and use government. Then the insurance companies will fail, go out of business and all that is left is government. So we will not have a choice.
Of course, there is the hope that the insurance companies will say HEY, make their plans better and more reasonable priced, so people will WANT them, and only use government in dire circumstances. Don't know.
I am also bothered that this bill which is very lengthy was trying to be pushed through and our lawmakers had not read it all. Whether it is stimulus, TARP, Health Care, I want these people making the decisions to read every single thing they are voting on, and discuss it rationally. It also should be publicized in its length so we can go out and really find out if what the obnoxious media is feeding us is true or not, and before it is passed or rejected, not after! We just do not need these sneaky little nickle and dime things in these bills, it needs to stop and has not. All Americans have been being cautious and tightening their belts, watching their nickle and dimes, government needs to as well, and I am just not seeing that.
As far as Cars for CLunkers, I actually like the idea, think it is a good way to get better fuel economy cars on the road. We are not shopping for a new vehicle until summer 2011. I hope the swing in the car market place will really have changed to alternative fuel vehicles by then, so there is a much better choice than I had last summer when I was forced to buy a new car because of an accident. I went with a Civic, which was a good choice, but felt GM really had nothing in the size car I wanted that could compete with Honda and Toyota.
The only thing I don't like about clunker program is that it seems wasteful to trash the old vehicles unless they are truly trash worthy.
