Comments on: Arguments for Rationing Health Care Already Begin http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/07/16/arguments-for-rationing-health-care-already-begin/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bert B http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/07/16/arguments-for-rationing-health-care-already-begin/comment-page-1/#comment-121176 Bert B Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:40:34 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=24939#comment-121176 This is a scary line: "But our current system of employer-financed health insurance exists only because the federal government encouraged it by making the premiums tax deductible. That is, in effect, a more than $200 billion government subsidy for health care." In order to really believe this, you need to start from the assumption that the Government owns EVERYTHING and has "gifted" this tax break on the people, because after all, it is the government's RIGHT to take everything thy want. This is a scary line:

“But our current system of employer-financed health insurance exists only because the federal government encouraged it by making the premiums tax deductible. That is, in effect, a more than $200 billion government subsidy for health care.”

In order to really believe this, you need to start from the assumption that the Government owns EVERYTHING and has “gifted” this tax break on the people, because after all, it is the government’s RIGHT to take everything thy want.

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