In tonights debate, Palin said this:
IFILL: Governor, are you interested in defending Sen. McCain’s health care plan?
PALIN: I am because he’s got a good health care plan that is detailed. And I want to give you a couple details on that. He’s proposing a $5,000 tax credit for families so that they can get out there and they can purchase their own health care coverage. That’s a smart thing to do. That’s budget neutral. That doesn’t cost the government anything as opposed to Barack Obama’s plan to mandate health care coverage and have universal government run program and unless you’re pleased with the way the federal government has been running anything lately, I don’t think that it’s going to be real pleasing for Americans to consider health care being taken over by the feds. But a $5,000 health care credit through our income tax that’s budget neutral. That’s going to help. And he also wants to erase those artificial lines between states so that through competition, we can cross state lines and if there’s a better plan offered somewhere else, we would be able to purchase that. So affordability and accessibility will be the keys there with that $5,000 tax credit also being offered.
Dear Governor Palin,
Your plan is not free. It seems you left out a big part of your plan. Your plan requires us (you know, America’s) to pay income tax on the amount our employer spend to get us a health care plan. This is around 1K/mo or 12K/yr in additional income which you would have to pay taxes on. For that, you would then get 2,500 or 5,000 in a tax credit to help pay for health care insurance.
Your plan actually costs about the same but does significantly less for American’s. If I am still confusing you, here is a graph that was published in one of those national media outlets called The Wall Street Journal:
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2 responses so far ↓
1 Lisa Emrich // Oct 3, 2008 at 1:48 pm
How many times must it be stated that nobody is talking about a ‘government run’ health care system.
But at least identical versions of the updated Mental Health Parity Act were finally passed by both Senate and House and attached to a Bill ready to be signed. It only took over a decade to get it comprised enough to pass.
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2 Nadja Tizer // Oct 3, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Uh yeah. I thought the McCain plan sounded awful too.
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