You assume many of the uninsured pay taxes to benefit from a tax break.

There are plenty of tax breaks already given to hosptials. The non profit ones are required to write a portion of their care for the uninsured to charity already.

Do you plan on repealing EMTALA?

For your medicaid solution, it’s very easy for a child or a pregnant woman to be covered by medicaid. The income limits are much lower for adults. For adults without children it more difficult. It varies from place to place but you should look at the medicaid guidelines more before you say what you did.

“but if the fact is that the uninsured are costing everyone else a ton of money by getting free care at the hospital which translates into higher costs for you and me, then this would end up saving everyone money and would keep the government from taking control of healthcare”

You are putting too much blame on the uninsured without looking other issues like DRGs, the cost of billing depts, litigation, and all sorts of other things.

about the so-called GIVE Act (the $5.7 B os spending on special interest “civic volunteering” act like AmeriCorps — read the papers about the fraud, waste and abuse in THAT program and Teleprompter Boys illegal firing of the Inspector General overseeing that bureacracy, but I digress):

What particular words or clauses in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress delegated power of do ANYTHING in the area of “healthcare” for individuals not in the military? That should be the starting point of any discussion over any federal role over “healthcare.”

Here it is:

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Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;–And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

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http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html#section8

Even FDR admitted in a speech he gave while Gov. of New York, before becoming president, that the Constitution would have to be amended before the federal government could do things he and the Congress later did, thereby usurping power from the people they delegated to the federal governent:

“As a matter of fact and law, the governing rights of the States are all of those which have not been surrendered to the National Government by the Constitution or its amendments. Wisely or unwisely, people know that under the Eighteenth Amendment Congress has been given the right to legislate on this particular subject, but this is not the case in the matter of a great number of other vital problems of government, such as the conduct of public utilities, of banks, of insurance, of business, of agriculture, of education, of social wel[are and of a dozen other important features. In these, Washington must not be encouraged to interfere.”

I urge everyone to go here to read the entire discussion of the subject:

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/AmericanIdeal/aspects/prohibited_powers.htm

This is an online copy of one of my favorite books on our system of government: “Your American Yardstick: Twelve Basic American Principles,” by Hamilton Abert Long (Your heritage Books, Inc., Phila., PA 1963).

If there’s any role for the government to be involved in “healthcare,” that should be at the State level, not the federal. That’s the law. Period.

Thank you.

The big difference is that you are now asking the Federal Gov. to fund your insurance premium 100% with a tax credit. Even if you put it in an HSA interest bearing account of about 2% (this is your only choice right now) that money can only be used for medical expenses- ever. In reality this amounts to just another bailout for banks courtesy of the Feds and in increase in the national debt..
Hardly a RED STATE ideal!