On the proposal for paying healthcare costs by either taxing the rich, or by making poor Joe Schmoe who pays a portion of his insurance premium and changing that to a non-deductible income for taxes (though we’ve personally been able to forego taxes on our portion of the cost, we’ve never been allowed the added deduction of expenses, since we’ve never gone over the required minimum before that takes effect), personally I vote for Plan A.
That way you’re only moving money into money (the wealthiest paying to the wealthiest, the insurance companies) instead of making the worker pay not to help his brethren get medical care, but rather to pay some overglutted industry to maybe make sure they’ll get some minimal health care if they think it’s absolutely positively without a question necessary and their decision counts more than any surgeon’s.
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