McCain Health Care Tax? (political)

[Selena_Kitt]

Is McCain really proposing a health care TAX with his new plan?

This from CNN:

Changing the tax treatment wouldn't hurt the employer-sponsored system and would allow more of the uninsured to buy their own coverage, [the McCain campaign says]. Also, his advisers say a McCain administration would keep an eye on the credit to make sure it didn't lag behind the cost of coverage, while also working to lower the rate of medical inflation.

Younger, healthier workers likely wouldn't abandon their company-sponsored plans, said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior economic policy adviser.

"Why would they leave?" said Holtz-Eakin. "What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit."

So they DON'T WANT YOU TO LEAVE YOUR EMPLOYER COVERAGE - because your employer coverage is gonna be better than the credit. Right? They say that right there.

But they want to TAX YOUR HEALTH CARE COVERAGE WITH YOUR EMPLOYER.

But McCain isn't about implementing new taxes. Ohhhh no. At least, not honestly.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

SELENA

I put nothing past McCain.

On the other hand Biden said today that the rich are now the people who make 150K or more. Yesterday he was in town and said the number was 250K.