Should health insurance companies be taxed

[ProSense]

[ibegurpard]

1. they should be abolished

that's my starting point...i'll compromise from there

[StarfarerBill]

2. Ditto.

[slipslidingaway]

3. knr your reply and the thread because of it :) n/t

[grantcart]

4. first time I have seen a single reply oblilterate an obnoxious poll

wish I had thought of it.

[ProSense]

8. Actually, the poll is doing quite well. n/t

[grantcart]

15. Well its still obnoxious because you aren't really asking about taxing insurance

companies but have a specific question about the excise tax that is contained in the Senate Plan.

21 votes hardly merits a "quite well", but you got spunk.

[bigwillq]

16. I think she's just gearing up

for her next thread. Somehow the 21 votes will be used against the "yes" voters. I just hope she blue boxes it. :rofl:

[ProSense]

19. Oh, but I am. n/t

[bigwillq]

5. ......

:thumbsup:

[highplainsdem]

7. +1

[Hello_Kitty]

9. I'd like to rec this response and unrec the poll. eom

[IndianaGreen]

10. Health insurance companies provide no value to health care delivery

They interfere with health care delivery by positioning themselves between physicians, their patients, and the treatment and diagnosis.

[slipslidingaway]

11. Exactly, but they do provide returns for investors :( n/t

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

NOT TRUE! They give out all those free pens!

Which doctors use to write prescriptions that go on to save your life. So just be damned grateful for the American Health Insurance Industry!

...just in case nobody got that

:sarcasm:

[Diamonique]

13. I am SO with you there! nt

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Great starting point...I agree

Aside from standing between patients and their medical care..what purpose do they serve?

It is profiting from the illnesses of the people.

[Ganja Ninja]

30. Exactly.

This bill is a complete waste of time. As long as for profit companies are involved the system will be gamed again and again.

[invictus]

31. +1

[90-percent]

6. And

They should be stripped of their anti-trust protections from the late forties, enacted at a time when most health insurance companies were non-profit.

-90% Jimmy

[Posteritatis]

12. Wait, what? They aren't? (nt)

[Oregone]

18. Oh they are, but this poll will be distorted later as support for the idea of an excise tax

Even though the poster totally "forgot" to include any mention of it in the OP.

Pretty much all profitable businesses are taxed (minus a few structures, like S-Corps that just tax the shareholders). Clearly, everyone agrees that profits should be subjected to taxes, as they are (the normal question is: how much taxes). This is normally the context people answer this question in, though itll be used in a totally different context shortly here.

[Oregone]

17. All profitable corporations should be taxed. Detrimental ones should be banned

[harun]

20. They should go the way of slavery.

[superduperfarleft]

21. They already are. You're being incredibly dishonest.

[ProSense]

22. I should have included the

the word "more."

So should they be taxed more?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. The more the merrier, says I....(nt)

[freddie mertz]

25. Dishonest. Fail. You should be ashamed.

[freddie mertz]

24. Beware folks. This is a dishonest poll, intended to gather fake support for the "Cadillac" tax.

Everyone agrees that insurance company PROFITS should be taxed.

But the OPer is trying to trick the unsuspecting into voting for her own very twisted language of support for the employee BENEFIT tax.

A truly disgraceful effort, this.

[ProSense]

26. Damn, you're paranoid. It's a poll on a discussion board. It has absolutely no weight. n/t

[freddie mertz]

28. It is a distorted, misleading poll question.

You seem to willing to try anything to get support for your roundly rejected opinion on this subject.

[TheKentuckian]

27. Other: Abolished, heavily controlled as a public trust, competed against

or at the very least subject to rigorous oversight and regulation.

Certainly no instrument should be used where the end and desired result is reduction of benefits and shifting of more costs to the consumer.

[Flaneur]

29. No, they are parasites that should be exterminated.