Today I heard about Hillary's Health care Plan on the radio.
I heard how she would offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses. I heard how this would make getting insurance more affordable and how this would make health care affordable for all Americans. What I didn't hear about was how she planned to pay for all of this, so I am posting this here in hopes that N8 can explain it to me.
Here are some links:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3321
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/americanhealthchoicesplan.pdf
On page 13 (11 in printed version) of the PDF I finally found some description of how this would be paid for. 110 billion dollars derived roughly half from increased efficiency and half from repealing the Bush tax cuts. Some money would also come from business.
If this 110 billion were distributed amongst the 47 million currently uninsured, it would provide about $2,300 towards health care insurance. This is a sizable contribution towards the average cost of about $3,000 per person for health care insurance today.
Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.
1. If this is such a good plan, why not introduce legislation today? Why tie it to her presidential campaign? Could it be that campaign promises are worthless?
2. If the increased efficiency savings don't pan out, Hillary could get that money from ending the war in Iraq (63 billion). What's that you say? Hillary is a warmonger? Awww, shucks.
What say you o wise and powerful s?
or lthumbsdown:
I heard how she would offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses. I heard how this would make getting insurance more affordable and how this would make health care affordable for all Americans. What I didn't hear about was how she planned to pay for all of this, so I am posting this here in hopes that N8 can explain it to me.
Here are some links:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=3321
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/healthcareplan/americanhealthchoicesplan.pdf
On page 13 (11 in printed version) of the PDF I finally found some description of how this would be paid for. 110 billion dollars derived roughly half from increased efficiency and half from repealing the Bush tax cuts. Some money would also come from business.
If this 110 billion were distributed amongst the 47 million currently uninsured, it would provide about $2,300 towards health care insurance. This is a sizable contribution towards the average cost of about $3,000 per person for health care insurance today.
Here are some of my thoughts on the matter.
1. If this is such a good plan, why not introduce legislation today? Why tie it to her presidential campaign? Could it be that campaign promises are worthless?
2. If the increased efficiency savings don't pan out, Hillary could get that money from ending the war in Iraq (63 billion). What's that you say? Hillary is a warmonger? Awww, shucks.
What say you o wise and powerful s?
or lthumbsdown: