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Originally Posted by PursuitOfHappinessParty
How does it matter in relation to the way the costs are imparted onto the individual?
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In terms of disposable income....
and also...here's the thing...with insurance cpmpanies some of the costs of healthcare are recouped through investing the money. With employers doing it some of the costs are absorbed through profits, even if the costs are reflected in the price of the products...it still gives the individual the option to spend or not in many cases....in addition...some of those costs ar transferred overseas when people in foreign markets pay for the products
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The choice of participating isn't really a choice at all. Either smaller business receive governmental 'welfare' to even the playing field or they're left out, unable to compete with corporations. Small business welfare is as undesirable to me as corporation bail-outs.
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I don't think I'd call it corporate/small business welfare unless it is a net positive gain for the employer....would you...and...if I had to choose between being taxed at 25% of the rate and it going to corporate welfare to provide the same service as me being taxed 100% for that same service....I choose the former.....
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The paperwork generated, records keeping, regulators, inspectors, and management sounds kinda burdenish and re-adding additional industry and it's costs. That this industry will at one point become privatized is a given. Then you add a profit loop, too.
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Whens the last time that you saw a government bureaucracy run more efficiently than a business in terms of cutting waste to be more efficient?
Also...is it fair to tax a single individual at the same rate for healthcare as a family of five? If I'm 26 years old and single...why should I pay the same as a 50 year old with a wife and 3 kids?