Friday, March 26, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
They don't make them like they used to
I thought this was an interesting video to dispel the notion that cars were safer back in the old days.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Cadillac plans
I think I understand most of the elements of the healthcare debate. However, I don't understand the fascination with taxing "Cadillac plans". Generally speaking, I have to imagine plans like this are high margin, which means at least one of two things:
1) Insurance companies are making a lot of profit off of the people that have them.
2) The margin from these is used to subsidize lower margin products.
Why is either of these a concern for the government? Why tax it? I'm honestly stumped.
If people are willing to pay in inordinately into healthcare, God bless them at this point. Glad someone is.
The greatest irony to me is that (here I completely lack the data) I would assume that the largest contingencies who would have such sweet plans would either be union or government workers - not the folks Democrats generally like to foist taxes upon.
1) Insurance companies are making a lot of profit off of the people that have them.
2) The margin from these is used to subsidize lower margin products.
Why is either of these a concern for the government? Why tax it? I'm honestly stumped.
If people are willing to pay in inordinately into healthcare, God bless them at this point. Glad someone is.
The greatest irony to me is that (here I completely lack the data) I would assume that the largest contingencies who would have such sweet plans would either be union or government workers - not the folks Democrats generally like to foist taxes upon.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Healthcare values
I realize I'm slow on this, but thought this editorial worth sharing, even belatedly. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1
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