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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: quehubo who wrote (125402)11/23/2009 7:47:38 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (1) of 542149
 
One way I can see for paying for basic necessary health care, and at the same time create an environment for future health care cost control is to extend Medicare to everyone and pay for it with a new Federal consumption tax, such as sales or value added tax. This way, everybody pays something for their basic health care via the consumption tax. It further removes one of the competitive disadvantages of American based companies: the necessity to pay for the health care of their employees, unlike companies in other developed countries. Employers can still supplement Medicare for their employees, but it will be a much smaller cost. And everybody that wants can supplement their basic Medicare with private insurance out of their own pocket, as is done today.
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