Posted: Oct 14, 2005 By: Melody Mueller

Subject: Taxing Employer Healthcare Benefits

Comment: Wow! I cannot even believe that taxing Employer Provided Healthcare Benefits to Employees would be considered as an option at this time. If a healthy employee would have the same financial benefit in purchasing their coverage on an individual basis, leaving only the unhealthy to have coverage provided through the Group Healthcare Benefit, premiums will only continue to rise on these plans and more and more small employers will be eliminating these benefit programs. Further aggrevating a system that is currently broken!