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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: TimF who wrote (7186)	6/24/2009 12:29:13 AM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) of 42652

"And while we "did just fine" (largely because few people paid that much in taxes), they did have a negative effect. For one thing they distorted compensation and investment. They helped create the employer sponsored pre-paid medical plans / medical "insurance", that has contributed to our high medical cost. Huh? The history I read on the creation of company paid healthcare is more along the following lines... "The roots of the healthcare system's current troubles lie in World War II, when Congress sought to keep inflation in check by freezing workers' wages. At the same time, however, lawmakers allowed companies to be as generous as they pleased with benefits. As a result, employers competed for relatively scarce labor by offering plenty of perks, including medical coverage for workers and their families. By the time Congress lifted the wage cap after the war, employer-based health insurance was a routine part of workers' compensation." Perhaps all those workers would have otherwise hit that 90% bracket???

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