You've got that slightly wrong. As an employee, you won't be taxed, your employer will for providing the benefit. It'll discourage employers from providing benefits to groups of employees, so you can say goodbye to your group discounted rates. All of our rates would go up.
This is an ad that needs to run in all states, literally! $5K won't even pay for what the average family needs for healthcare, PERIOD, anyway.
And taxing the current benefits? That's the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot in my short lifetime (26 years is short compared to McCain's 72)
Give McCain's $5000 tax credit a look after thinking about this:
From the 2007 report from The National Coalition on Health Care:
The annual premium that a health insurer charges an employer for a health plan covering a family of four averaged $12,100 in 2007. Workers contributed nearly $3,300, or 10 percent more than they did in 2006.2 The annual premiums for family coverage significantly eclipsed the gross earnings for a full-time, minimum-wage worker ($10,712).
So between the employer and the worker the health insurer gets $15, 400 to insure the average American family (now remember these are only the premiums paid, this does no account for deductibles and co-payments paid when family members actual visit the doctor or a clinic)
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If McCain wins we're all screwed. I pay $300/mo for the healthcare of my family, I don't need it taxed on top of that! WTF?
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$5K won't even pay for what the average family needs for healthcare, PERIOD, anyway.
And taxing the current benefits? That's the biggest crock of shit I've ever heard, and I've heard a lot in my short lifetime (26 years is short compared to McCain's 72)
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From the 2007 report from The National Coalition on Health Care:
The annual premium that a health insurer charges an employer for a health plan covering a family of four averaged $12,100 in 2007. Workers contributed nearly $3,300, or 10 percent more than they did in 2006.2 The annual premiums for family coverage significantly eclipsed the gross earnings for a full-time, minimum-wage worker ($10,712).
So between the employer and the worker the health insurer gets $15, 400 to insure the average American family (now remember these are only the premiums paid, this does no account for deductibles and co-payments paid when family members actual visit the doctor or a clinic)
The whole report from NCHC is here
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
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