Ddrak wrote:Still, if it clings to the old idiocy of employer based insurance then I still say that it's not enough change.
What do you make of this part of his framework?
Obama health plan wrote:Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance options as well as a new public plan based on benefits available to members of Congress that will allow individuals and small businesses to buy affordable health coverage.
It shouldn't be small business' responsibility to have anything to do with employee health care, any more than it should be their responsibility to provide home contents insurance for their employees, or finance their cars, etc.
Lurker wrote:His plan doesn't mandate small business to do anything.
I was more wondering what you thought about a new public plan available to consumers.
It's better than not having it. For a start, it provides a baseline that the commercial insurance providers will have to justify their premiums against. The fact their stock has been collapsing shows just how much of a threat it really is to their profits, and having been in that system I can't really feel sorry for them.
