Bush’s standard deduction for health insurance is in his proposed budget, but that doesn’t amount to much now that Congress is no longer controlled by the Repugnants. The benefits from health insurance paid for totally or partially by your employer may get tied in with some knd of adjustment for the AMT — Alternative Minimum Tax. This is going to cost some not-so-rich people in 2007 unless something is done about it. Let me do the arithmetic one more time.
$10,000 to insure a family X 1000 equals one million X 1000 = $1 billion. So, you can insure one million families with a billion dollars, but this is still a long, long way from covering the 47 million who have no health coverage.
All Bush schemes barely tinker around the edges and have something to do with tax cuts. Cutting taxes never paid for anything. One thing universal health care would do is create jobs in this country for people in this country. It’s not likely you will be sent overseas for your doctor’s visit.
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