Healthcare – A Simple Question
President Obama says there are no sacred cows in the quest to fix US healthcare. So to that I ask this: Why does it make sense to have insurance based on employment at all?
That question usually results in the answer, “because we don’t want totally socialized medicine.” But wait…why is that leap there? Why can we not have PRIVATE insurance as a group based on citizenship rather than whether I work for IBM or some other big group? Why can’t we have competitive markets in insurance but make this something individuals take on (like car insurance)?
Doesn’t it make sense to simplify US business by removing the entire question of “benefits”?
Does anyone know why this is not on the table? What’s missing?
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