Really, not bad for whom? The rich?
not bad for the nation. The wealthy "need" us to avoid fiscal meltdown much less - they have, after all, the ability to shift rapidly. It's the middle and lower income classes that need to worry about the inevitable results of our overspending.
Really, these were plans? I thought they were only statements, nothing to fix the problem immediately. Talking about fixing health care is not fixing it and is not a plan. In the end it is talk.
agreed, which is why I am glad that Republicans have put forth a variety of plans that would help us lower Healthcare costs and expenditures. In Indiana, for example, Republican Governor Mitch Daniels introduced HSA's to the state workforce, and was able to reduce state expenditures by
11%.
That is most of it. The right blames lawsuits on the high cost of health care, not the greedy pharmacuticals (sic) or insurance plans that drop paying policy holders with major illnesses. Again, they don't blame Greed on the problem.
you have just contradicted your own argument, claiming first that the Right Wing blames the greed of Tort Lawyers, and then complaining that they don't blame "greed".
In reality, the need for tort insurance does drive up healthcare costs. I had a friends father close his OB/GYN practice when malpractice insurance in his state rose to $200,000 a year. it is an expense that our legal system drives higher than it should be - and loser pays is a good market-pressure fix to that; certainly better than some artificial cap system.
But again, you are fighting a strawman. because tort reform is not the key piece needed (according to conservatives) to bring down the rise in the cost of Healthcare; we need to bring market pressure in by altering the way we pay for it.
Really, let's do a ratio, for what the MC makes, they pay more than their share of taxes.
the highest earning decile in the US gets about
33.5% of of our total income; but they pay a little over
45% of our tax burden. meanwhile,
US Households are now receiving more from Uncle Sam than we are paying in Taxes.
If the BIG Corps and Oil paid their share, for the benefits they recieve, we'd not be having this discussion.
those companies pay their taxes according to our current tax code. they take deductions and credits the same as the President does, the same as the middle class family does, the same as the lower income family does. I'm all for stripping out credits and deductions from the Tax Code, but let's not pretend that doing so for oil companies is going to provide much more than a drop in the bucket.
No it is not needed. We don't need to spend more money on a concept that will not pass the states or the senate.
the BBA is needed (both parties have now officially proven themselves to be completely incapable of disciplining themselves), and it will pass the States.
After it passes the Senate.
in 2013.
We need for everyone to pay their fair share. And, we need to have responsible gov't (hey you trust big business to do the right thing, I have my fantasy also?)
i don't trust big business or big government to do the right thing. I trust them to follow their incentives and do what is best for
them. That is why I want to alter our regulatory and tax structure to make it
good for business to invest and expand here in America.
Isn't the right always saying you should not regulate anything?
no. we are saying we should regulate
intelligently, which the left seems to have confused with regulate
more. We could pass regulation stating that each employer shall be fined $100,000 for each new job he creates and it would be regulating the job market - that wouldn't make it wise.
You should like Wall Street play without rules because they will not do damage to our economy, or Insurance companies should not be watched because they are not interested in the bottom line, they care for those that pay for insurance.
on the contrary; insurance companies should face steep punishment should they violate their contracts. enforcement of contract is one of the prime reasons for government in the first place.
What is needed is the enforcement of the other admendments, e.g. 14th equal protection, etc.
not to mention the 10th.