volinbham
VN GURU
- Joined
- Oct 21, 2004
- Messages
- 69,798
- Likes
- 62,521
RealClearPolitics - A Victory for Obama's Agenda of Spreading Dependency
Health care will not be seriously revisited for at least a generation, so the system's costliest defect -- untaxed employer-provided insurance, which entangles a high-inflation commodity, health care, with the wage system -- remains. Obama could not challenge this without adopting measures -- e.g., tax credits for individuals, enabling them to shop for their own insurance -- that empower individuals and therefore conflict with his party's agenda of spreading dependency.