I just read Krauthammer’s piece in WSJ. He wrote: “Tax employer-provided health care benefits and return the money to the employee with a government check to buy his own medical insurance, just as he buys his own car or home insurance.”
I’m confused … if employers no longer provide health insurance and workers buy it on their own, then what “employer-provided health care benefits” will be taxed, as Krauthammer says, to fund the “government check” employees get? I don’t get it how this would work.
actually, in general theory, I like the idea of divorcing one’s healthcare insurance from employers. The quality of medical care should not be dependent upon the generosity of one’s employer.
But this could only work if there were insurance co-ops available for people to purchase policies from as one large risk pool, and not allow insurers to decide who can get coverage and who can be denied.
I just read Krauthammer’s piece in WSJ. He wrote: “Tax employer-provided health care benefits and return the money to the employee with a government check to buy his own medical insurance, just as he buys his own car or home insurance.”
I’m confused … if employers no longer provide health insurance and workers buy it on their own, then what “employer-provided health care benefits” will be taxed, as Krauthammer says, to fund the “government check” employees get? I don’t get it how this would work.
actually, in general theory, I like the idea of divorcing one’s healthcare insurance from employers. The quality of medical care should not be dependent upon the generosity of one’s employer.
But this could only work if there were insurance co-ops available for people to purchase policies from as one large risk pool, and not allow insurers to decide who can get coverage and who can be denied.