July 28, 2009
Which candidate do you agree with on Health insurance?
Sand asked:
A=Mandatory universal coverage in first term. Tax credits for working families to make insurance more affordable — ensuring premiums do not exceed a percentage of income. Business would be required to offer insurance to employees or pay into a pool for people without it. Expand Medicare and federal employees' health insurance plan to cover those without adequate workplace insurance. Raise taxes on wealthier families to help pay estimated cost of $110 billion a year. Also, raise taxes on a portion of "very generous" plans covering people making more than $250,000.
B=Mandatory coverage for children, no mandate for all. Aim for universal coverage by requiring employers to share costs of insuring workers and by offering coverage similar to that in plan for federal employees. Says package would cost up to $65 billion a year after unspecified savings from making system more efficient. Raise taxes on wealthier families to pay the cost.
C=$2,500 refundable tax credit for individuals, $5,000 for families, to make health insurance more affordable. No mandate for universal coverage. In gaining the tax credit, workers could not deduct the portion of their workplace health insurance paid by their employers.
D=Incentives for states to expand affordable coverage. As governor, he signed health care law aimed at ensuring universal coverage through a mix of subsidies, sliding scale premiums and penalties for those who do not get insurance.
A=Mandatory universal coverage in first term. Tax credits for working families to make insurance more affordable — ensuring premiums do not exceed a percentage of income. Business would be required to offer insurance to employees or pay into a pool for people without it. Expand Medicare and federal employees' health insurance plan to cover those without adequate workplace insurance. Raise taxes on wealthier families to help pay estimated cost of $110 billion a year. Also, raise taxes on a portion of "very generous" plans covering people making more than $250,000.
B=Mandatory coverage for children, no mandate for all. Aim for universal coverage by requiring employers to share costs of insuring workers and by offering coverage similar to that in plan for federal employees. Says package would cost up to $65 billion a year after unspecified savings from making system more efficient. Raise taxes on wealthier families to pay the cost.
C=$2,500 refundable tax credit for individuals, $5,000 for families, to make health insurance more affordable. No mandate for universal coverage. In gaining the tax credit, workers could not deduct the portion of their workplace health insurance paid by their employers.
D=Incentives for states to expand affordable coverage. As governor, he signed health care law aimed at ensuring universal coverage through a mix of subsidies, sliding scale premiums and penalties for those who do not get insurance.
No Ron Paul answers please, just refrain from posting. Thank you.
A= Clinton
B= Obama
C= McCain
D= Romney
Comments on Which candidate do you agree with on Health insurance?
Best plan: Anyone making over $75,000 a year should buy and pay for their own health insurance. This should be adjusted by the number of minor children and extended until young adults reach age 24.
A sliding scale for those making less than $75,000 adjusted by number of children.
The truly middle and lower income families and individuals should be covered by eliminating all but the most essential pork barrel earmarks and raising taxes on those making $250,000 per year.
Romney is the ONLY cadidate that has addressed the health care crisis and come up with a solution that insured every person in Mass. He came to a bi-partisan agreement in a heavily democratic state. The plan did not raise taxes, kept health care private. Charges people on a sliding scale (if you make less, you pay less) and is seeing incredible success right now. There are over 200,000 citizens in Mass. that weren't insured before Romney and that number is growing by the hundreds every day.
Romney is the only candidate that has any experience in Health Care reform.
I don't want the DMV-type employees handing out my medicine and i don't want to raise taxes by trillions to do it.