My wife and I make 85,000 a year. Should taxpayers pay for my son's health insurance, as Democrats suggest

Answer 1

No, only if you make $80K/yr, $85K/yr is extremely wealthy, you should be taxed heavily, to subsidize those of us that have no ambition, drive or desire to work hard.

Answer 2

If you have a group plan thru your employer, then no taxpayers should not pay for your insurance. However, if you lose your jobs and cannot get insurance because of a pre-existing condition then yes, there should be a way for you to get insurance coverage. With the rising costs in health care, your employer may raise your rates to a level that makes that $85,000 more like $50,000. Then what will you do?

Pooling resources with everyone else has got to be a better way to go for all involved. Doesn't it gall you that the only ones making out are the the Drug Companies, the Insurance Companies and their cronies in the goverment?

Answer 3

Of that $85,000 divided by 12 equals a little less that $7,100.00 per month, how much do you currently pay out a month for:
YOUR health insurance?
Your family's insurance?
Life insurance?
Mortgage insurance?
Vehicle insurance?
Dental insurance?
oh and well, you probably have this as well, Pet health insurance?

Add ALL those payments up. Do you have any idea how much money you'd have, if you invested those payments in something which gave you a return on your investment? That's what the INSURANCE companies do with your money, they INVEST it, then deny your claim, just to keep that interest coming in on your money.

The money you pay for health insurance now, would you be willing to pay a NON PROFIT service provider who would actually be concerned about your family's health, not their profit margin, the same amount? The money you pay, up to a certain amount, is kept within your state. Your treatments are kept in your state. To get better run neighborhood clinics, doctors who don't have to run patients through like a damn assembly line to keep the HMOs happy, and true healthcare oversight, to stop old folks dying of malnutrition in retirement home beds and hospitals charging $40.00 for aspirin?

Answer 4

No, how is that fair? Children are their parents responsibilities, not the tax payers. If you can't afford to have children, then you shouldn't. Health care is part of the expense of having children. My hubby and I make $36,000 a year ($3,000 a month) and we have no children. Why should we have to pay for someones child that makes over double of what we make? How is that fair? It's already bad enough that we have to pay school tax on our home when we don't even have nor want kids, not to mention that we are taxed to death on cigarettes which covers a child's education and health. In my junk mail, I get offers for affordable insurance all of the time. Insurance for a child runs about $125.00 a month. How could someone who makes $85,000 a year not be able to afford that? Even we can afford that! If a child is seriously ill and needs medical help, the news will run stories about them and set up a site for people to donate money. Most children who need extreme medical care get the help through donations. No to democrats!!!!

Answer 5

Yes.

Your taxes along with everyone elses should go up a little bit and everyone should not have to worry about getting sick and loosing everything.

Not knowing the condition of your son but knowing the condition of my brothers stepdaughter (who has a heart condition that must cost may tens of thousands a year and if he and his wife did not have insurance through thier jobs they could not possibly afford to keep her alive) should we just let these type of children die because we can not afford to pay for health insurance or cost of treatment. { Yes, No, Maybe ? }

What if you had insurance but it was only 50 or 100 thousand dollars worth and the bills went over that amount.
You might find yourself in the dillema of letting your son die or going broke paying for treatment.

In some places in the USA $85,000 a year is just enough to pay for appartment and get by.

Europe and Canada pay a little more in taxes to pay for universal health care why can't we.

Answer 6

Well, considering that a basic private health insurance famly package is going to set you back $18,000 per annum, even in the best cost of living markers, it's going to be hard to make ends meet. If you're in New York City, you'ere not prospering at that salary level, that's for sure.

Answer 7

No, I have a family member that has a family income of $ 76,000 and doesn't use her companies health care because she says it cost to much , but both her and her husband get new cars every two years, takes at least 3 to 4 family vacation yearly, and the kids have the latest toys and lots of them, so why should my tax dollars or even the taxes from tobacco taxes to support their life style

Answer 8

I would much prefer that the government find out what is causing health care to be so expensive and work on it from that perspective before even thinking about this type of program.

Answer 9

if someone makes this kind of money but has a new car or a 300k house and doesn't have insurance on their children should be ashamed. priorities i guess. gotta keep up with the Jones' you know. in mississippi, i make 35k per year. i am in construction. the mexicans competing for my job don't pay taxes. i won't see a raise because of this government for another 15 years because of the illegal aliens situation. whoever wants socialism needs to move to canada, they would be much happier. they should leave america to the real americans who don't want or doesn't receive a thing from the government. i can take care of myself.

with freedom comes responsiblity. socialism is one step from communisim.

has anyone ever wondered why education costs have skyrocketed. its because the government pays for it or at least most of it. if you socialize medicine, the price will go through the roof, duh!!!

name one government program the government got involved in that lowered the price. i can tell you many programs the government kept out of and prices plummet as new technology comes along. can anyone say electronics?

Answer 10

If you make that much, clearly you would have the option not to have your son covered by the government program--that would be the moral imperative, so that others who need it could benefit. The question is, would you?

Answer 11

You guys are still missing the whole point of risk management.

The most logical thing to do is put us all in the same insurance pool to spread the risk and lower everyone's cost. It's a very simple concept that all conservatives should explicitly grasp.