Under Bernie's National Health Care Plan we have more take home pay.

[Skwmom]

Not only does the net pay increase, the cost to the employer goes down. The employer saves thousands which can be used to hire additional employees, give raises, reinvest the money.

[Jarqui]

1. Makes American doing jobs more competitive with world labor

because the overall taxes/costs to provide health insurance are less.

And there's not nearly as much deductible. If they go as far as Canada, the deductible is darn near nothing.

[Skwmom]

3. Very good point. Amazing how they ignore that.

[Jarqui]

6. After all we've been through on jobs exiting the country over the last couple of decades+

since NAFTA, it stuns me that it is not a bigger issue.

The biggest issue for me is that Americans stop dying from a lack of healthcare. But jobs and closing the net income gap which this also does are benefits.

And the last piece is that the cost of American products and services go down relative to the rest of the world because their labor component is more cost effective with more sensible health care costs - so more American products sell and deliver more American jobs that way ... and the economy and P&E for Wallstreet (except health insurance companies) goes up.

It will help bring jobs home.

Single payer makes sense in so many ways - even for Wallstreet and big business.

[thesquanderer]

2. It depends on the individual.

Not everyone will have more take home pay. People who make more may see less take home pay.

[Skwmom]

4. Well if you are making over a quarter of a million, I suspect you'll still do rather well. n/t

[thesquanderer]

7. You probably don't have to go that high...

Let's say you're self-employed, making $100k. If it works like the current payroll tax, a self-employed person is responsible for both the employer and the employee share of the benefit, which in this case totals 8.4%, or $8,400, which comes to $700 a month, which is higher than many (most?) individuals are paying now. But we don't know all the details yet...

[seaglass]

5. I will have less take home pay as I do not get health insurance through my employer. My employer

will be paying a tax for me that was not required previously.