Healthcare should be like auto insurance. Individuals buy it on the open market. No employer involvement.

by flaca BN-0 Posted 2011/04/03 02:54:25

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wouldn't this be better? It would relax the burden on companies and there wouldn't be the divide between those who get it as a perk and those who don't.

Let's make healthcare like auto insurance. Market forces at work.

Magus BN-0 2011/04/03 22:49:17

No, it would be better if "markets" had nothing to do with health insurance and we had a single-payer system.

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La 2011/04/03 05:32:12

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Yes. I never figured out why American employers have anything to do with your healthcare.

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XENON23 2011/04/03 05:16:00

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YES YES YES

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NPC 2011/04/03 04:16:20

Tell the Democrat POTUS. Unless ObamaCare is repealed you will be forced to pay whatever the Insurnace Cmpanies say. Eventually. the Government will take over healthcare and private citizens will have SOCILAIZED MEDICINE ONLY. Thank Pelosi, Reid and Barry soetoro for this awful event.

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flaca BN-0 to NPC 2011/04/03 05:05:13

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it doesn't worry me. I've lived in 5 different countries, most of them european and their h/c systems are perfectly fine. Of course in the US you are taught to think they are crap. But if you live there, you realize they are not.

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susiefrown to flaca BN-0 2011/04/03 06:39:33

Canadian health care is often referenced to in a disparaging way by opponents of single payer universal health care. Our system is not perfect, but is not the nightmare that critics, using fallacious arguments, would have you believe. Canada shows that it is possible to ensure all citizens have access to health care without sacrificing quality or having some people's health related needs not properly met.

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Manwë 2011/04/03 03:49:42

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We all need health care but we all don't need to own a vehicle for transportation.

Should employers be involved? Maybe not if all are in another group. The way health insurance is priced, it is cheaper to buy in a group. Unions, associations and clubs are such groups. I suppose if all are in unions then that problem is solved.

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flaca BN-0 to Manwë 2011/04/03 04:04:32

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the best group is market forces.

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NPC to Manwë 2011/04/03 04:17:08

Vote Republican and this ObamaCare will be repealed.

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U-Dog to NPC 2011/04/03 04:39:44

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Vote conservative and libertarian and this ObamaCare will be repealed... voting straight repub will only get us back to the big govt idiots we had before the current bunch of even bigger govt idiots. Left to their own devices the repub party leader’s would only reword and revamp the Obamanation and use it to benefit their own bunch of political cohorts.

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