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Friday, May 22, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Burr's healthcare scam, er, plan
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 1:10 PM
North Carolina's senior U.S. senator, Richard Burr, presented the Republican proposal for healthcare reform Wednesday. The proposal immediately came down with a case of "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss," as it is essentially the same one Sen. John McCain made during his presidential campaign. The GOP plan would end the tax breaks companies now receive to give workers health insurance. Instead, Americans would receive tax credits to be used to buy their own insurance on the "open market." In addition, everyone would have to pay taxes on whatever healthcare benefits they receive. Burr said his plan would "finally enable Americans to own their health care instead of being trapped in the current system, which leaves people either uninsured, dependent on their employer, or forced into a government program." One of the plan's problems is that the money Burr's talking about — $5,710 for families and $2,290 for individuals — won't even come close to covering the costs of most health insurance plans. Burr, though, argues that insurance companies will offer more competitive insurance plans that would lower costs. It is undetermined whether Sen. Burr also believes the Easter Bunny leaves eggs in his yard once a year. Burr says the plan would cover 22.3 million more uninsured people, but he fails to mention that it would still leave another 26 million people uninsured. In any case, Burr's proposal has zero chance of passing, but is being used as political cover by the GOP, which doesn't want to be open to accusations that they don't care about America's healthcare crisis.
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