Reform Reality Check: Reform will benefit small business - not burden it

Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, debunks the myth that health insurance reform will hurt small businesses. To the contrary, reform will ease the burdens on small businesses and help level the playing field with big firms who pay much less to cover their employees on average. August 10, 2009. (Public Domain)

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[CannibalShinobi]

The section on page 50 of HR 3200 aligns Health Insurance Exchange policies with other laws currently in effect, such as the Public Health Service Act, State law, and ERISA. Health care cannot trump other laws already in effect.

According to America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 No Federal Payment for Undocumented Aliens. Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States."

[EwakAmerica]

I think this lady needs to preventive healthcare.

[DoubleFixed]

Obama Cons Cripples

Obama needs a cattle prod and shock collar to enforce civil rights laws. His adoption of Rosemary’s HMO baby, Kaiser Permanente, rations medical care to disabled patients. I was crippled by paralytic polio at age 6. Kaiser’s ADA Compliance Program Manager refused to disclose service dog policies. Obama’s Disability Director, Henry Claypool, ignores complaints.

Jacquelyn Finney MPA

HMO Hardball

[yesilike101]

Pres. Obama, where is clunker for college tuition? Another empty speech?

[Freedomgeorge1776]

Enumerated powers. The Constitution grants the federal government about thirty-five specific powers eighteen in Article I, Section 8, and the rest scattered throughout the document. (The exact number depends on how you count.) None of those powers seems to authorize control of the health care system outside the District of Columbia and the federal territories.

[Effedup]

The current system doesn't work at all, something's gotta change. The knee-jerk reaction by some business may very well be to lay off employees as a kind of "fuck you" to the government if this does pass. Eventually, though, it HAS to change.

How does one "move forward" when being paid the equivalent of slave wages? It's a never ending cycle.

I find it's very easy for people to talk about personal responsibility when they are on the HAVE side of the fence, as opposed to the HAVE NOT.

[psalmtree]

Effedup,

So why don't you just give up? No one is blaming the people. Take personal responsibility for your situation regardless of who created it, and move forward. Overhauling health care isn't going to solve your problem. It may only make it worse if your employer has to lay you off due to the increased overhead created by the new law. You should be hoping it doesn't pass.

[Effedup]

Financial literacy be damned, in this day and age it is simply not possible to live on those wages. Given the job market out there, I think it's kinda ridiculous to be simplistic and say "find a better job". Hell, I know people with college degrees delivering pizzas right now for 8 bucks an hour...

You can only blame "the people" so much. The people that run the system need to change their ways as well. Paying $100 for Insurance out of a $600 check every two weeks is RIDICULOUS.