Health care
Greg Hamby
greetings: Our health insurance system is broken. Insurance premiums reflect the attempt by the care system to get paid for their treatment of the uninsured. As the premiums increase {as mine did and I cancelled my policy} more become uninsured and premiums increase and so on and so on. The rest of the developed world has a workable system. In those countries you can avail yourself of low to no cost govt. backed care and if you desire you can also buy private insurance. We need the same here. Individuals and small business are being priced out of health insurance. On our present course with no reform there will be socialised medicine within a decade. I am very dissapointed that the USCC is outright spreading lies with their current tv ads. Sincerely, Greg Hamby
U.S. Chamber SBN
@Jon Meijer: Yes, a full time employee is defined by an average of 30 or more hours for at least one week in a month.
Starting in 2014, employers with more than 50 full-time employees must offer full-time employees coverage that pays at least 60% of benefits covered by the plan and for which an employee’s contribution is less than 9.8% of household income. For employers not offering coverage that have at least one full-time employee receiving income based premium assistance to buy coverage through new health insurance exchanges: Penalty is $750 annually for every full-time employee. For employers offering coverage that is unaffordable or does not meet minimum standards: Penalty is $3,000 annually for each full-time employee receiving income-based assistance for health insurance exchange coverage. Penalties capped at $750 times total number of full-time employees. No penalties for employees receiving free-choice vouchers
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April 21st at 7:50am
Dave Miller
Greg Hamby: Lies by the USCC? I've heard more lies from Obama in his brief presidency and on the campaign trail than any politician in my lifetime. California had massive Increase in premiums due to onerous regulations and illegals. CA could balance their budget immediately if freeloaders were not included. Our country was founded on freedom, NOT regulation; OPPORTUNITY, NOT WELFARE. If you like health care in other countries please leave the USA. We have a Constitution. Other countries do not. People died so we might have choice - I refuse to surrender my freedom lightly.
March 24th at 2:18pm
Jon Meijer
Does the Health Care bill define what constitutes a fulltime employee? If the cut off for small business is 50 employees, does it include full and part time employees?
Thank you,
Jon
March 22nd at 7:55am
Jack Paden
I have had personal experience with the health care system in Austria, The government provides universal care to all its citizen by maintaining regional hospitals. There is no insurance involved.
Patients simply go to the hospital to be treated. There are no bills and no insurance plans to pay these bills. It works, but patients might spend a lot of time to get their treatment.
Our proposed plan includes an army of clerks to shuffle the bills for treatment after treatment is rendered.
One cannot compare our proposed plan with those in Europe simply because of the huge cost of insurance billing.
Our plan forces everyone to get insurance whether they plan to use the government plan or not. In Europe one simply goes either to a government hospital, or to a private sanitorium (hospital).
Our proposed plan forces those who plan to go to a private hospital to buy an insurance plan they will not use in addition to paying the bill from the private hospital (whether in the USA or anywhere else in the world.)
Basicall, it amounts to a healthcare poll tax. Hasn't the poll tax been ruled unconstitutional?
March 20th at 3:56pm
Katherine Fehrenbacher
Mr Hamby, How can you say low cost or no costs. Who pays for helath insurance? Our tax dollars do. We need more competition to lower costs. We don't need Govt take over of healthcare.
March 18th at 2:11pm
