[quote=AN]Shuffling cost from taxpayer to the government? I’m a little confused, doesn’t the government get their money from tax payer? Tax credit for individual to buy their own insurance, tax credit for parents to help them w/ the cost of medical expenses.[/quote]
You are right, I phrased “shuffling cost from taxpayer to government” incorrectly. It was the taxpayers money to begin with, so how does Paul’s plan help at all? The customer is still having to pay way too much for healthcare, the only difference is that the government is sending them a credit for it. That money is coming from somewhere, right? If the taxpayer is coming out even in the deal, the government is the one coming out in the red — is that not subsidizing healthcare?
The issue is not who pays, it is that we are paying too much. Perhaps the malpractice part of Paul’s plans would help with a bit, but malpractice costs are less than 1% of total medical costs. Medical malpractice is the great healthcare cost boogey man.
And I agree that eating right and exercising is part of an individual’s responsibility to lower healthcare costs. But how will that help you if you get T-boned by an uninsured drunk driver? Or some machinery at your job blows up and shoots shrapnel through your eye socket? Is healthcare still a luxury then? Or does it then become a right?
