Posted on 05/22/2013 3:23:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I do cross fit. Trust me it gets you into shape and wears you out. Plus I do about 15 - 20 miles a week walking and/or jogging. It knocked about 30 lbs off me and my wife irsnt want me to lose anymore though I’d like to take another 10 - 15 off...
I thought the only plans available were the ones that included coverage of things mandated by Obama?
I feel for you and the other physicians who are having their careers ruined by this law.
Some years ago my grand nephew was intent on becoming a doctor, but because his finely-tuned political antennae told him that there was a good chance that we would have socialized medicine in the near future, he changed his mind and became an engineer instead.
Yes, but they apparently only mandated the stuff that they were concerned about and didn’t mandate that insurance remain as it is. Letter of the law. Must have free mammograms and contraception. No law says they have to pay for hospitalization.
And yes, it is illegal to just have a high-deductible catastrophic insurance plan. It must cover all the free stuff.
That is not going to happen, it is not a free market with obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid etc... Prices will continue to climb.
Move to Cuba. You’ll get the socialized medicine you are asking for.
What sort of blooming idiot are you? Employers dropping hospitalization is under discussion, which is a direct result of Obamacare.
If employers reduce benefits they’ll lose their best employees to companies that don’t. Basic capitalism. Maybe you “feel” that people should just sit and take it, and be happy with whatever?
Sounds pretty socialist of you. So, you move to Cuba. You’ll find what you’re looking for through the haze of your confusion.
Accepting your number that medical costs are going up 10% per year, that is a VERY good thing if we are getting what we pay for.
Only for those who can pay, besides, most of the increase goes to lawyers and other parasites.
It’s not just the government money, even insurance takes away the emphasis on getting good value for medical payments.
Maybe you are unaware that the whole employer-supplied health insurance thing is an unintended consequence of tax law changes in the Fifties. I stand behind my comment: pay for your healthcare, or move to a country where the government will steal at gunpoint from your fellow citizens to pay for you.
You are bombastic, ignorant and proud of it. Compensation is compensation, whatever the form. Reduce it, lose good employees.
You’re working a temp job with no benefits and resent anyone else having them, I take it? How Soviet of you. Them’s Russians now, by the way.
Okay, I’ll humor you: you can work for me. I will pay you a basic salary and I will “pay for” your health insurance on top of it; or, I can allow you to buy it yourself, and I will pay you the money I would have spent on your insurance.
Which would you choose? It’s all the same to me.
You have identified one of the reasons the US healthcare system got to the crazy place it is.
Health benefits were not taxed as income.
So it became very common for employers to offer them.
Tying “healthcare” to employment broke the connection between cost and the actual consumer of the service.
I suggest you work your way up to paying for your own first.
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