ObamaCare was a labor union boondoogle, not health reform.
We need to either go all in, and have universal health care, or get government out of the healthcare business altogether. This half-assed incrementalist bullshit is destroying us economically.
You ever wonder why you never see ads for health insurance, but can't go one commerical break without seeing an ad for Progressive or Allstate auto insurance. Have you?
It is because the government is in the health care business, but isn't in the auto business.
How fucked up is it the government not only involves itself in health insurance, but also gets to write the rules for its private sector competitors? Is it really a ******* mystery how that would turn out any other way than it has, with skyrocketing health care costs?
The government shoves private insurance into geographically limited pools while it gets to have clients from all around the nation, giving it more bargaining power than private insurance companies.
ObamaCare embeds employer-sponsor health insurance even more deeply into our health care system, and that is one of the drivers of skyrocketing health care costs.
Does it make any ******* sense that when you lose your job you also lose your health insurance at the same time, but you don't lose your auto, life, or home insurance?
Wake up.
Employer-sponsored health insurance forces you to take it or leave it. You don't get to negotiate with a wide variety of competing health insurance companies nationwide. You don't get to pick which options you want or don't want. You don't get discounts for being a long term customer. And if one person in your small company runs up huge medical bills, your premiums skyrocket even more.
And the insurance company does not get the bargaining power with healthcare providers that the government's national company (Medicare) does. How fucked up is that?
The whole ******* field is tilted in the government's favor.
You should be able to buy your health insurance the same way you buy your home, auto, and life insurance.
Until then, health care costs are going to continue to outpace CPI.