Bush Health Ideas Would Help Too Few and Harm Middle Class

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Bush Health Ideas Would Help Too Few and Harm Middle Class, Says Group

Among the domestic themes billed as prominent in President Bush's State of the Union speech tonight is federal health care reform, which he outlined in his radio address Saturday. Unfortunately, his chief solutions are based on tax deductions that would encourage financially strapped families to buy policies that, while they have lower premiums, are likely to leave them deep in medical debt, said the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. Many middle-class families with higher-quality insurance would find themselves subject to a new tax.

Bush also called for Congress to allow the sale of degraded "junk insurance" nationwide to individuals and employers, said FTCR. Such a law would weaken patient bills of rights in many states and could leave families owing tens or hundreds of thousands dollars because such policies often do not limit how much patients must pay out of pocket.

Bush proposes a tax deduction on individual policies up to $7,500 a year for singles and $15,000 for families. Above that, employees getting coverage through employers above that amount would be taxed. This harms people who pay very high premiums because they are older or ill, as well as businesses with an older or sicker work force.

"Call it the cancer tax," said Jerry Flanagan, health director of FTCR. "Bush's scheme leaves out families that can't afford any insurance, and harms people who are charged very high premiums because they may have a job or a health condition that marks them for huge surcharges.

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1. And they just don't stop trying to demolish the poor and middle classes.

Popular opinion/polls regarding these fucking agendas to punish the poor do not matter.

Politicians are tone deaf. They are out of touch. They are criminally insane. They are thieves. They are masters of deception. They BITE!

Sure... this plan will go down in flames, maybe. Or maybe some blue dog Democrat or dlc'er will extend the claw of bipartisanship and offer a compromise bill that hurts only half as much.

While the destruction of the quality of life for working people has been obvious since the days of reagan, it still amazes that ANY working American votes repubic.

POLITICIANS. DON'T. CARE. ABOUT. YOU.

What will it take to wake people up? People dying of hunger in the streets?