I’m sure that employers will cringe when they see this.
For businesses with payrolls greater than $400,000 per year. (The bill uses “contribution” to refer to mandatory payments to the government plan.) Pages 149-150, SEC. 313, EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS IN LIEU OF COVERAGE
(a) IN GENERAL.—A contribution is made in accordance with this section with respect to an employee if such contribution is equal to an amount equal to 8 percent of the average wages paid by the employer during the period of enrollment (determined by taking into account all employees of the employer and in such manner as the Commissioner provides, including rules providing for the appropriate aggregation of related employers). Any such contribution—
(1) shall be paid to the Health Choices Commissioner for deposit into the Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund, and
(2) shall not be applied against the premium of the employee under the Exchange-participating health benefits plan in which the employee is enrolled.
The bill then includes a sliding scale of payments for business with less than $400,000 in annual payroll.
What is the Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund?
Under Section 205, the commissioner is to establish outreach and enrollment processes for “exchange-eligible” individuals and for “vulnerable” populations, including adults and children with disabilities and cognitive impairments. Under Section 207, Congress would create a Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund for the deposit of funds to finance the operations of the Health Choices Administration.
$400,000 is not a large payroll and it will hit almost any business with 10 or more employees. How are they going to absorb the added 8% cost? The answer. Raise prices and/or lower wages.
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The constitution the United States basically wrote for the new Iraq government guarantees every Iraqi citizen the right to a job, to an education and to healthcare. Tens of thousands of Americans have died and been wounded to secure these constitutional rights for the people of Iraq. Over a trillion American taxpayer dollars have been spent to make the Iraq government with its constitutional guarantees of a job, education and healthcare a reality.
My question for you is: why are Iraqis allowed to enjoy these constitutional rights but we here in the United States do not? Seriously. How do you defend what we’ve done for the people of Iraq while accepting that Americans themselves have no claims to such guarantees? What makes the Iraqi people so much more deserving than us?
Mark,
Can you point out “where” in the constitution health care is a right?
I believe Mark means Iraqii Health is a right for them! Why again did we attack them?
Everyone already has the “right” to healthcare. The question is who is going to pay for it after you have exercised your “right.”
So employers have a choice:
- Provide coverage at the existing (but likely increased) prices
- Pay the fine
Employers, if they have a brain in their head, are going to choose the cheapest of those two options. Which, from my experience is almost certainly going to be the 8%.
So, millions of Americans lose their coverage, employers save a little cash, government gets control of your treatment, and everyone lives in hell ever after.
For Mark: Amend the U.S. Constitution to make Health Care a right, and I will support it. Otherwise, STFU.
In 1794, Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object, “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
Constitutional limits on federal power are explained by James Madison in Federalist Paper No. 45: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined… be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce.”
Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Pennsylvania Representative Albert Gallatin, “Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. Whensoever the General Federal Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”
In a speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, James Madison said, “The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction”.
So why would healthcare even be an issue?
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