Thu, 10/15/2009 - 12:56am — cg.eye
Reposting from Ms. Madrak:
http://susiemadrak.com/2009/10/14/17/30/...
I just got off a conference call with Arlen Specter where I asked him why the Democrats don’t talk about the wave of entrepreneurship that would be unleashed if people knew they could leave their jobs, start a business and still get affordable health coverage for themselves and their families.
He was surprised, said it hadn’t occurred to him and wants me to give him names of people who would start their own businesses if they knew they could get affordable insurance.
Go to her post, and talk about your dreams there. I know at least one couple who'd ditch their day jobs and start a restaurant, if it weren't for keeping their family's benefits.
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i was going to
but after thinking about it, i can't.
single payer, yes. employers would pay a predictable percentage of their payroll in taxes, no more haggling with insurance companies, or wondering what percentage increase in premiums next year will bring. your health insurance expenses increase when your payroll increases, whether you do that by giving out raises or by hiring additional workers. also, the need for workers comp insurance would likely decrease substantially. possibly also the liability insurance you'd have to carry on your company vehicles would be less.
public option? no way to plan for that, since the only way you can be assured that you'd get to put your employees into the public option is to stay small [since the legislation is written to allow the hhs sec to open the exchanges to larger companies at some future date, but it's not a promise that that will happen]. yeah, as a sole proprietor i could be assured of being able to buy the public option, but even that's iffy, given that they're talking about going with negotiated rates instead of medicare rates, and they're looking very hard at keeping subsidies low. not a lot of help there.
a public option along the lines of hacker's original proposal might be doable, but all the bills now perpetuate the financial industry's stranglehold on the rest of the economy [yes, health insurance is a half-step removed from the rest of the financial industry, but that's not nearly far enough].