Does this ring a bell, "if you don't learn from history you're destined to reapet it"?

Let's face it, government doesn't do ANYTHING well. It can barely educate our children and well want these clowns in Washington to decided what is best for us?

Come on America, WAKE UP!

The size of the tax credit should be modest– just enough to give a healthy individual incentive to choose a qualifying plan over a non-qualifying but less-expensive individual plan.

The present tax incentive using an employer tax exclusion is worse than nothing, in that it gives a new employee incentive to drop private coverage in favor of the tax-favored company plan.

The problem is that when employment ends, the employee may not be able to qualify for individual coverage. Or if he does take short-term individual coverage in hopes of finding another job, he loses continuous-coverage status as applied to group plans. In other words, the tax exclusion is actually a cause of non-insurance for people between jobs, that and the firewall between group and non-group insurance.

I don't favor more invasive federal government intervention until they can demonstrate competence by cleaning up the mess they are already creating via the tax code. I'm not holding my breath.

At the end of the Constitutional Convention, when asked what kind of government had been fashioned, Ben Franklin is said to have replied, "A republic, sir, if you can keep it." And Thomas Jefferson is reported to have said that another revolution would be necessary from time to time.

Perhaps the time has come.