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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (58682)4/12/2008 9:08:51 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 542644
 
<<<transferring their health care costs to general tax revenues is obviously a cost saving exercise.

Depends. If you look at the proposals on the table, you have those that would tax the companies to cover the cost. That may or may not save the company money depending how how much that company is paying now. If you make the employee pay the cost after a tax break and a pay raise and get the employer out of the operational loop, the company could come out ahead, or not. I doubt there would be a system passed in this country where the employers got to walk away scott free.

I don't see where you get "obvious" out of all that.>>>

It is obvious if you are not a dogmatic believer in market fundamentalism.

If costs are reduced by X amount you have to be to be able to say where X amount is being added, otherwise you are saving money. Of course in creative accounting you could always add or subtract from some ethereal line item like "good will" to prove your point that subtracting cost could cost you.
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