The are determined to wipe out health care for the middle class

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Why? I don't know.

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press
1:51 p.m. CST, November 28, 2010

WASHINGTON (AP) — Job-based health care benefits could wind up on the chopping block if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans get serious about cutting the deficit.

Budget proposals from leaders in both parties have urged shrinking or eliminating tax breaks that help make employer health insurance the leading source of coverage in the nation and a middle-class mainstay.

The idea isn't to just raise revenue, economists say, but finally to turn Americans into frugal health care consumers by having them face the full costs of their medical decisions.

Such a re-engineering was rejected by Democrats only a few months ago, at the height of the health care overhaul debate. But Washington has changed, with Republicans returning to power and widespread fears that the burden of government debt may drag down the economy.

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Yes, we all just love to go to the hospital all the time on our employer-based health care plans, with their big deductibles...The only thing I see here is a push towards a system of fraud-insurance, where the only way to afford the premium is to have a deductible so high that you never can use it. And of course, you are forced to pay into this scheme...