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Health Insurance is not medical care, it is merely a method of ensuring payment for medical care.
Why do you consider how I pay for medical care any of my employers business?
Granted, as an employment perk, it is very attractive to have a company provided policy, but is is merely a “perk” provided in lieu of wages.
Most company health insurance policies have increased in costs annually, at such astronomical rates (10-20%), that few private small to medium companies can afford to offer this “perk” at affordable rates to their employees.
IMHO, it is past time to shine a very large spotlight on the aspects of “health care” that seem to be least productive in terms of actually providing medical care-namely the Insurance industry, and the government agencies that regulate them, to the detriment of patients and health care providers.
Let’s stop demonizing insurance companies. They finance healthcare. They take our premium dollars and manage them in such a way that they can pay for the expensive and sophisticated equipment and training that we can get.
I can just as easily talk about the American consumer who will bitch about paying a doctor while driving 60 miles to go to a casino to gamble.