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To: cuban leaf

“Remove health insurance from the employer and, over time, the cost will “re-center”. That is, the cost will reflect the fact that the people using it are the people paying for it. You may find that instead of paying 10% of $1,000 a month ($100), you are paying all of $400 a month (the new “centered” price), but earning $300 a month more.”

It would be interesting to see but I’d be surprised if it just stabalized at current levels. A significant drop seems unlikely unless something drives costs to crater.


63 posted on 11/17/2014 10:11:43 AM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DonaldC

A significant drop seems unlikely unless something drives costs to crater.


WalMart now has an on-site doctor (kinda like the vision center) that charges $40 per visit. If you let a truly free market regulate prices, the cost of health care will go down significantly. Free market health care INSURANCE would have to follow.

The reason prices have done what they have done for the last several decades is, in part, because the market has not really been “free”.


69 posted on 11/17/2014 10:16:52 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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