$5000 Won’t Touch Health Care Costs
Oct 9th, 2008 by nick
My mother had a great letter published today in the Santa Barbara News Press. Viewing it online requires a login, so here’s the full text:
John McCain’s tax credit of $5000 for health insurance is a drop in the bucket. My husband and I pay $1200 a month for self-employed health insurance premiums. That amounts to $14,400 a year. We still must pay $40 every time we see a doctor, and we each have a yearly deductible of $1500. After that deductible is met, our insurance pays only 80% of our health-care costs.
The $5000 in tax credits of McCain’s plan would just barely cover the increase in premiums and health care costs compared to last year. We would be no better off than we were a year ago
We don’t need a Band-Aid approach for the health-care crisis. Barack Obama’s plan offers the change we need to fix a health-care system that is broken. All of the other civilized countries in the world have taken steps to make sure that their citizens have affordable health care. It’s time for the U.S. to join the civilized world
Aletha Solter
Goleta