Giuliani Offers “Tax Break” Health Care Plan
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Health Care
I would personally benefit from something like this, but what about the people who can’t afford health care?
In his speech here, he excoriated Democrats for advocating a “socialist†solution to solving the problem of the nation’s 44.8 million uninsured, saying the party’s candidates encouraged a “nanny government†by proposing a greater government role in health care.Instead, he proposed tax exemptions of up to $15,000 per family, allowing individuals to direct that money toward the purchase of health insurance and other medical spending. He also said he opposed any government mandates that would require people or businesses to buy insurance, which is central to the universal health care plan neighboring Massachusetts passed in April 2006 when Mitt Romney, a Republican rival, was governor there.
And to help the poor or others struggling to afford health insurance, Mr. Giuliani said he would support vouchers and tax refunds, but he gave no details about how he would pay for them.
Vouchers? So is Rudy saying he’d pay for health care for people under a certain income level? Wouldn’t that just be the government footing the bill for a portion of the population who can’t pay? Not that I’m opposed to that, but this doesn’t sound as much like a health care plan as it does a tax break plan for people who can afford health care.
Come on Rudy…get serious and offer solutions, not tax breaks. The problem is not with the people who can already afford health care, and you know it.
Also, would you lay off the false partisan attacks on Dems?
“That is where Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are taking you,†he said. “You have got to see the trap. Otherwise we are in for a disaster. We are in for Canadian health care, French health care, British health care.â€
Neither Clinton, Obama or Edwards offers anywhere CLOSE to nationalized, socialist health care plans. Hell, Romney’s health care plan is much more in line with Dems than it is with Rudy’s, except Romney doesn’t require businesses to pay for employees health care…he just requires everybody to buy health care.
Rudy says he’ll offer more specifics in the fall.
Let’s hope so because this “plan” is a joke.
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August 1st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
As usual, the Republican plan is to give more money back to those that already have some, and throw away the cashless trash to fend for themselves.
In addition, unless you have a house, it’s usually stupid to bother itemizing deductions. Granted, it’s lovely to try to encourage home ownership, but the system is discriminatory against those who can’t afford it.
August 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
In fact, the problem is for people who can afford health care. It is called the middle class – and while they can “afford” healthcare (most of the time), they can’t afford health insurance. The poor are already covered with medicaid. Get serious Justin and start fixing the actual problem which is with middle income earners that do not qualify for Medicaid, not the poor and quit diluting the conversation with your tiresome class consciousness – you missed the boat by 90 years and an entire continent.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Dos, you serious? They can’t afford EITHER. And what’s more expensive, health insurance or health care? Obviously the second one is, that’s why one gets health insurance in the first place.
Also, this is about class. I’m sorry you don’t think so, but it is. There are people who can afford health care and people who can’t, and that hasn’t changed for decades. It needs to, and Rudy’s plan offers nothing more than tax breaks for people who already buy health care in the first place.
August 1st, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Hey “tax-cut” Republicans. Do you really believe we are getting “tax cuts?” Just how do you”get” tax cuts when you are spending hundreds of billions of dollars in Iraq? Unless of course, you are a share holder in an oil company or you make more than six figures a year. I suppose then you [are] getting tax cuts. Another name for “tax cuts” is called corporate welfare. Perhaps we need to reform corporate welfare like we did social welfare which is down right miniscule when compared to corporate freefare.
Those so-called “tax cuts” the already well-to-do are getting is really nothing but a lead weight on the necks of the next generation. I’m sure they will be glad to know that you got your tax cut at their expense.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
DosPeros shoveled this from the manure pile
Ummm…no, they’re not. Medicaid does not provide health care for the working poor. It might provide it for their children, though Bush is trying to make certain that even that ability is cut back, but it does not provide it for many poor Americans.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:27 am
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