A Young Employee's Take on ObamaCare

A young employee commented the other day that he was concerned about the Health Care Bill that Congress was considering and the President was pushing. I wondered why.

He said that if he understood correctly, what would happen is that the Health Care currently provided by his employer would go away and be replaced by a Health Care program offered by the Federal Government. If that happened, the amount the employer was currently providing on a pre-tax basis would then become taxable income. The Health Care offered by the government was likely to be very restrictive on its coverage and therefore inferior to what he was currently being provided. The net result is that if passed, he would get inferior Health coverage and pay more for it because now it was being taxed.

I said, "that's about right."

Perry vs. Obama Care

The Governor of Texas has always been a strong proponent for business interests within the state. That is one of the reasons we have managed to weather the economic downturn so well. His stance on "Obama Care" is right in line with his sense of what is best for the business climate in Texas. The Healthcare package before Congress would put a number of small businesses out of business.

Businesses create jobs. Jobs put food on the table. Why anyone would ever think that forced charity and state control is better than self-reliance is beyond me.

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