re: #569 jamesfirecat

Our current system subsidizes the poor as well what with how the ER has to treat anyone who comes in regardless of if they can pay for it or not when the bill comes due…

Nothing wrong with care for the poorest—though we have to do it in a better way than using the emergency room. The public option constructed by the house required all employers to pay 75% of all health care costs/premium, or pay an 8% payrol tax. For anyone making less than about $100k, it would be cheaper for employers to dump private health insurance and force people into the “public option”.