Health Care Plan..for everyone.

[longfisher]

Your idea sounds a lot like single payor that was proposed by the Democrats but didn't end up in the final bill due and made no traction amoung the general population.

You realize that you're suggesting more taxation to fund an exclusively government run program and, in the process, cutting the private insurance companies out of the process don't you? As the above poster said, it sounds a lot like the system currently in place in Canada, albiet, more economical with only a 1% sales tax.

What astonishes me is that your proposal, not without merit and judging from the responses so far a seemingly welcomed idea, contains virtually all of the ideas of the far left's greatest wet dream for a fix to the health care problem. It is clearly socialistic and yet is, apparently, supported by at least a half dozen of those who regularly on this board and in the past have railed against the Obama plan as socialistic.

In point of fact, one of Obama's guiding principles from the outset was to build on the private enterprise system we already had and to retain the insurance companies in the mix, despite their abysmal record of delivering health insurance. So, whereas the left talked right up the end about single-payor, Medicare for all, Medicare opt-in and the public option none of those ideas made it into the bill.

Many beleive the Republicans simply became the party of obstruction and didn't meaningfully contribute to the debate with their own ideas. Some say that, as a consequence, they were useless and they may have even missed a chance to incorporate more of their ideas into the bill.

I respectfully disagree. The Republican opposition was 100% effective in preventing any significant shift from a private enterprise-based system to a socialized system like Medicare. I believe the Republicans acted, with or without design, as the loyal opposition and got a lot accomplished that was consistent with the conservative ideals of private enterprise.

So, then with the success of the Republican effort to protect the free market economy from government enforced socialism why would any of you support the idea of the the original poster? Gentlemen, your reactions were the very epitome of contradiction. I was amazed to see so many on this board support such an idea. What gives?

LongFisher

[Dave Sikorski]

I agree with Longfisher.


-D

[Double D]

How does 1% sales tax cover a cost that is currently 15%+ of GDP?

[Capt. Jon Tennant]

Now don't you go messing up my run at the presidency... Always been a fan of a plan would call for no more income tax. Rather a flat national sales tax or VAT as its called in countries that do so well with it.

Its going take a national sales tax just to keep this country from going busted with the burden the Health Reform is going to place on it.... & the numbers I've heard being tossed around have been larger than 1%. The biggest surprise to most will be finding out that Obama and his crew have know all along a national sales tax would be needed and has been planning and counting on this from the start.

They already have that in Canada where they have nationalized their health care too, its called a GST, or goods and services tax, and its a hell of a lot more than 1%. We are heading that way. Bunch of ass wipes in Washington voting for bills that we cant afford.

already on the news today..... VAT ya say deep... looks like ya might get your wish.

[longfisher]

Anybody know how a Value Added Tax works?

LongFisher