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Experts Predict McCain's Health Coverage Scam Would Make Coverage Far Less Available, and Far More Expensive For All.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/v-print/story/53697.html
Excerpt:
Premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage currently average
$12,680 this year, of which employees pay $3,354, according to a Kaiser
Family Foundation 2008 employer survey.
Those numbers
have spawned concern that the McCain plan wouldn't cover the cost of a
policy, and that the gap would grow in the future. The McCain plan is
expected to adjust the credit for inflation, but health-care costs
usually rise far more than the cost of living.
Some also
are concerned that the plan would undermine employer-based coverage.
"The employer-based insurance system could unravel," said Dean Baker,
co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal
Washington study group, because employers would lose incentive to cover
employees, leaving them with less coverage.
Business leaders have voiced similar concerns.
"We believe the employer-based system is the foundation of health
insurance coverage in this country," said Bruce Josten, executive vice
president for government affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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