Obama put on the spot about funding for healthcare

[barkly]

IRS code section 125 allows employers who sponsor healthcare insurance for their employees to withhold the employees share of the premiums on a "pre-tax" basis, thereby saving the taxes the employee would pay on the cost of their health insurance.

I think Mr. Hussain Obama is considering that a subsidy to the insurance companies, when in fact, it is a subsidy to the hard working American tax payer.

It would not suprise me if the Dems changed the tax code to eliminate this option.

[dawgmom]

IRS code section 125 allows employers who sponsor healthcare insurance for their employees to withhold the employees share of the premiums on a "pre-tax" basis, thereby saving the taxes the employee would pay on the cost of their health insurance.

I think Mr. Hussain Obama is considering that a subsidy to the insurance companies, when in fact, it is a subsidy to the hard working American tax payer.

It would not suprise me if the Dems changed the tax code to eliminate this option.

That would be a really creative spin on a subsidy. The taxes not collected are considered a subsidy to the insurance company. I guess they think that sounds better when they are playing it against the new label of "reforming health insurance". Yes, those insurance companies are the root of all evil.

[saltydawg]

IRS code section 125 allows employers who sponsor healthcare insurance for their employees to withhold the employees share of the premiums on a "pre-tax" basis, thereby saving the taxes the employee would pay on the cost of their health insurance.

I think Mr. Hussain Obama is considering that a subsidy to the insurance companies, when in fact, it is a subsidy to the hard working American tax payer.

It would not suprise me if the Dems changed the tax code to eliminate this option.

What makes you think that the tax break will be eliminated?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

You knew, and I told you, these guys and gal wouldn't have the balls/ovaries to show their faces in public back at home. They have Americans on IGNORE.


AP/Reuters
Facing the fury of constituents and local editorial writers, most high-ranking Dems are taking a pass on town hall-style meetings to sell Obama's health care overhaul.

But several top Democrats -- including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid -- have avoided the in-person town halls, choosing instead to participate in telephone and Internet forums to reach out to thousands of constituents.

Reid, the Senate's top Democrat, has yet to hold a traditional public town hall, but is expected to host a "tele-town hall" August 28. Assistant Majority Leader Sen. Dick Durbin, who said organized protesters were prepared to take over the town halls and "shout and shove" their way to the podium, called the public meetings a waste of his time.
"The people who are showing up at these town meetings are not looking for dialogue. They're looking for diatribe," Durbin said. "I don't think that's a productive use of my time."

Rep. George Miller, chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, held a July 31 telephone community meeting and Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Committee on Finance, met with doctors and hospital administrators Aug. 13 at a Holiday Inn in Missoula, Montana.
Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, have yet to announce plans to host a town hall.
Rep. Ed Markey was singled out Saturday by the Milford Daily News in Massachusetts as "a senior member of the House committee that wrote the health care bill (who) has yet to schedule a public meeting on the topic."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...august-recess/

[stodgdog]

This is exactly why the Dems need to say "**** bipartisanship" and pass through a bill that will actually DO something. Because anything they do in the name of bipartisanship is then headlined like that by all the far right media.

Not to mention, they didnt DROP it yet. They "appear ready to drop it".

But hey, why let facts get in the way? It hasnt stopped you guys before.

DB3,

What are the facts?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

Obama should be put on the spot about this. Can you imagine Bush doing this??? Of course not. The uproar would be non-stop.

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...health-reform/

[techman05]

DB3,

What are the facts?

The facts are that 1. we need reform in CERTAIN areas of health care. 2. this solution will bankrupt our country. 3. it will not help the uninsured which is what it claims.

those are the facts.