Let’s see. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation report (obvious liberal bias) shows that the average amount of employer-sponsored health coverage is $1,115 a month. That’s the equivalent of $13,375 a year- or roughly the equivalent of the annual salary of a minimum wage job. That’s what an employer pays on top of each employees’ salary. Little wonder why employers are transferring an increasing portion of health care costs on to their employees’, eating into employees take-home pay. Can you imagine if you were a small-business owner, trying to get your feet off the ground, and you had to factor in the costs of paying the equivalence of an annual employee salary on top of the salary you all ready pay out?
Why, that’s madness. But, that’s also the current system status quo which some disillusioned and ill-informed individuals are fighting tooth-and-nail to preserve. All that talk about how Obama’s health care plan is a “job killer?” Yet paying the equivalence of a year’s worth of salary for each job somehow isn’t a job killer?
If the current health care system remains unchanged, then our country continues down an economically ruinous path. All of these cynical pessimists that are opposing the attempts to health care reform- and support the current towards for national economic ruin- are treasonous, plain and simple. Despite the undeniable fact that efforts need to be done, and we are looking at a comprehensive piece of legislation that deals with these issues in a systemic manner, these cynics keep braying about a “clean sheet of paper.” Consider how this extra $1,115 chokes the innovative efforts and the economic driving force of America’s small businesses- how will a “clean sheet of paper” help them? Consider the 45,000 unnecessary deaths that occur in this country this year due to the lack of health insurance, or health insurance that denies coverage. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to that? And consider the outrageous premium increases that occur each year- at least double-digits regardless of where you’re at, but in some locations reaching up to 39 and even 60 percent. How will a “clean sheet of paper” put an end to those?
Boehner, Cantor, McConnell… I have an idea of what you can do with your “clean sheet of paper.” You better home you have a comprehensive health care plan that won’t refuse coverage of what procedures would be needed to take care of you afterwards!”
