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Ugh. Looking like any "public" health care insurance option would be restricted to those who don't already receive coverage through their employer

Posted by Don Homer (aka DonHomer) Jul 16 '09, 07:41

(unless your premiums exceed a very high percentage of your income).

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that's all well and good, until employers stop providing coverage, knowing that the government is there to take up the slack. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 07:56 7
- That's why any overall reform needs to required employers with (X ) or more employees to provide coverage -- nm - ty97 Jul 16, 07:59 4
  - I haven't read up on this enough. When employers are required to provide is it solely at the employers cost or can it continue to be a shared cost - pmb Jul 16, 08:05
  - However that may lead to many companies suddenly having "contractors" at their business and so not having those people covered.... - Walt_Disney Jul 16, 08:02 1
    - yup, that the danger in regulations that are inherently arbitrary in their application. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 08:03
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- That's where I think this will be going in time. Maybe not for 10 or so years but sometime after that. -- nm - HdnAgnda Jul 16, 07:59 1
  - And I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have happen, provided we radically rethink our approach to funding health care in the mean time. -- nm - znufrii Jul 16, 08:00
What if elect not to pay for them through our employer? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 16, 07:55

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