I don’t know that I am crazy about my employer making medical decisions for me.
Like it or not, to the degree that you rely on the health care available from the health insurance provided by your employer, your employer is making health care decisions for you.
What hospitals, what doctors for which you may use your health insurance, what treatments will be covered, etc., all are part and parcel of the plan that your employer provides.
You're always free to use your own money to obtain health care not paid for by the insurance provided by your employer, just as someone who wants to buy one of the four baby-killing “contraceptives” may do so. The difference is that buying one of these four “contraceptives” may set you back ten or twenty, or maybe, I don't know, fifty bucks. Obtaining medical services from a hospital and a doctor not in your network could cost you many thousands of dollars.
Under the model of employer-provided health insurance, your employer will always have something to say about your health care.
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If that is how you see this, then you’ve been duped if your employer ever provided you with any kind of negotiated health benefit plans. And they negotiated them every year!
I don’t want anyone making medical decisions for me. I want the freedom to pay for anything I want myself.
I can pay to have an oil change on my car. My car insurance company doesn’t cover it.