I"ve written a few times asking the question, how do we reallocate the money that private sector companies are spending now into a Universal Healthcare system. One way I concidered was finding a way to either incentivize or even mandate that all company turn the saving from a federally funded healthcare system into wages. There is no reason that a company should see a move to Uni-Healthcare as a giant financial boom other then the advantages in compettitiveness going forward.
It is when that $12,000/yr that the average company pays for healthcare for a family of 4 becomes a raise that we can talk about how much we are willing to pay into a UniHealthcare system.
So I was thinking what if we tried to find a way to push wages down from the top of a company to the lower level wage earners?
Is there an American CEO that is really worth $400 million a year? What can you do with that much money other then insure more Paris Hiltons in few generations?
I wonder what kind of stimulus this would be for the economy. If instead of a 6 grand umbrella stand a family was able to put a little more away for a child's education or even have a little more to buy that Hybrid car?
Now I can already hear the Conservatives "Income Redistribution!" Well I say "Not So!". In spirit of Republican pollster and author of such great word play like Bush's "Clear Skies" or "Healthy Forrest" Initiatives, Frank Luntz. Think of it as an "Earnings Fairness Doctrine"
