Health care is a right bill?
Should then electricity be a right? Who wants to freeze to death if you can’t afford to pay the electric bill? Should gas be a right? Should owning a car be a right? How about a home? How about a job? Funny how the dems are all about rights now…. except the right to life of course.
Anyway, kiss jobs and the economy good bye if this passes.
The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.
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