Quote Originally Posted by Spartana View Post
True but then you are shifting the insurance cost from wealthy private businesses onto the taxpayer's. Making big business even greater wealth and increasing taxes for citizens and the deficit. All on the back of higher earners who cannot use the subsidies themselves, but get to see their premium's sky rocket as well as their taxes. And as more companies stop offering insurance coverage to their employees - or eliminating full time jobs or reducing hours to p/t once the employer mandate kicks in - the greater that tax burden increases. Add into that that the potential millions who will retire a decade or 2 early because they can get subsidized health insurance, as well as the younger people who choose not to work or just work p/t, and you increase that national debt and the requirement for more taxes. All the while doing nothing to control health insurance costs which will probably continue to rise now that dear old uncle Sam I'd footing the bill rather than big business for many.
Not all businesses are wealthy. In countries where the government is involved in providing medical care, health care costs are all lower than the U.S. All other countries, including those with universal and government supported health care have much lower health care costs than the U.S. Not a single country on planet Earth has higher health care costs than the U.S., though many have higher rated health care systems.

Check out these charts on health care costs in the U.S. compared to other countries -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...are-ludicrous/

Almost all other developed countries have some form of universal healthcare, many with more robust economies. Affordable health care isn't a failed social experiment. It is the way the rest of the develop world works.