Comments on: VAT attack! Will Obama push for a big healthcare tax? http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/05/27/vat-attack-will-obama-push-for-a-big-healthcare-tax/ Politics and policy from inside Washington Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:23:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: fbelz http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/05/27/vat-attack-will-obama-push-for-a-big-healthcare-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21 fbelz Fri, 29 May 2009 18:08:37 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=94#comment-21 Right now we pay for health care with premiums to insurance companies who take money off the top. If we index health care to 1970 levels and cap costs to this index we can pay for adequate health care. No we cannot continue to pay for transplants, new joints for people who have only 6 months to live and also cannot pay to keep brain dead people alive. Oh, we also cannot pay for elective plastic surgury. If individuals and their families have money to spend above and beyond the normal level let them do it, but everyone deserves basic coverage. Right now we pay for health care with premiums to insurance companies who take money off the top. If we index health care to 1970 levels and cap costs to this index we can pay for adequate health care. No we cannot continue to pay for transplants, new joints for people who have only 6 months to live and also cannot pay to keep brain dead people alive. Oh, we also cannot pay for elective plastic surgury.

If individuals and their families have money to spend above and beyond the normal level let them do it, but everyone deserves basic coverage.

]]> By: Mike Oliphant http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/05/27/vat-attack-will-obama-push-for-a-big-healthcare-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Mike Oliphant Thu, 28 May 2009 05:58:08 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=94#comment-17 James You might want to take a look at Utah's oldest online source for health insurance found at www.benefitsmanager.net. This website sponsors much of the online health insurance connector points in Utah. James
You might want to take a look at Utah’s oldest online source for health insurance found at http://www.benefitsmanager.net. This website sponsors much of the online health insurance connector points in Utah.

]]> By: Mike Oliphant http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/05/27/vat-attack-will-obama-push-for-a-big-healthcare-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Mike Oliphant Wed, 27 May 2009 18:55:38 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/?p=94#comment-14 James Just read your article "Did the GOP Capitulate on Healthcare". Specifically with your comment on Utah webportal connector, I wanted to touch base and let you know there is more information about this that can be found at www.utahinsuranceexchange.info. We believe the system designed here with H.B. 188 is a good step in the right direction but not a complete fix. You may find this of interest. Please contact me for details. James
Just read your article “Did the GOP Capitulate on Healthcare”. Specifically with your comment on Utah webportal connector, I wanted to touch base and let you know there is more information about this that can be found at http://www.utahinsuranceexchange.info. We believe the system designed here with H.B. 188 is a good step in the right direction but not a complete fix. You may find this of interest. Please contact me for details.

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