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You're right that employer-based health insurance is idiotic and economically destructive (conservative and libertarian analysts have been saying so for decades
by orangecat 16y ago
You're right that employer-based health insurance is idiotic and economically destructive (conservative and libertarian analysts have been saying so for decades), but your blatant partisanship is not helpful. In 2008 John McCain's platform included a migration away from employer coverage by treating benefits as taxable income, while simultaneously granting a refundable tax credit for the purchase of individual insurance. Obama and the Democrats instantly demagogued that as "taking away your existing coverage" and defended the employer-based system.
- rombus 16y agoYour blatant partisanship isn't helpful either. Pretty much every analyst has opposed employer-based health insurance, even though you dishonestly implied that conservative and libertarians were alone in that view. Secondly, the tax credit was for $5k, which is a joke for anybody who knows what individual policies cost if you aren't in your 20s, or have any troubling medical history. Thanks for your hypocrisy. Please drive through.
- Locke1689 16y agoLet's please not have political discussions on HN.
- anamax 16y ago> Let's please not have political discussions on HN. It's interesting that you chose to respond to the person who demonstrated "dems good, republicans bad" was wrong instead of the person who just asserted "dems good, republicans bad".
- Locke1689 16y agoI got here after both people posted. I posted below both people to indicate that I wanted the convo thread killed. I downvoted both people.