Reply #52: That's not the subsidy part [View All]

[sandnsea]

He'll provide an income based subsidy to help pay premiums.

If you're paying $10,900 a year for insurance, you are in an income bracket where the health insurance debate is only theoretical. Working income people don't even think about insurance that costs that much. It's up to the individual to increase their exemptions??? What good do you think that will do on a $10 hr paycheck? Tax refund? Like the $1,000 college tax credit that was supposed to enable everybody to go to two years of college? Premiums based on percentage of income? What percentage? 6%? 12? We don't know.

Education costs $6-10,000 per student per year. Look what teachers make. Before we can get costs down, we're going to have to get expenses down. When we stop having multi-millionaire doctors, medical sales teams, CEO's, Administrators, etc., we can start reducing costs. Low income people are not going to get on board with having huge chunks of their income taken until some of these other changes happen. Let the wealthy make the sacrifices first for a change.