More wonderful words of common sense. Too many people feel a “right” to a lot market services. Healthcare is a complete hot mess, we’re a 2 person small business. We are living the headaches of healthcare every year. Currently struggling to decide if we should go from one plan to another. The trade offs are just risks we have to decide we want or don’t. They get their money, either a lot up front thru premiums or at time of service thru user fees.
What is frustrating to me is that “conservatives”, who (at least used to) advocate free markets, have not advocated reforms like putting individually purchased health insurance on a level playing field with employer benefits.
Conservatives will say “Repeal Obamacare”, but that only returns us to the prior status quo of what is essentially socialized medicine delegated to employers through the tax code.
Regarding health care & the agreed 'mess' let us not forget the insulting comments of Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist & one of the main architects of 'Obama Care'. While speaking at a health care October 2013 forum at the University of Pennsylvania he stated. "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes," he said. "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass." Thank you sir. May I have another?
More wonderful words of common sense. Too many people feel a “right” to a lot market services. Healthcare is a complete hot mess, we’re a 2 person small business. We are living the headaches of healthcare every year. Currently struggling to decide if we should go from one plan to another. The trade offs are just risks we have to decide we want or don’t. They get their money, either a lot up front thru premiums or at time of service thru user fees.
What is frustrating to me is that “conservatives”, who (at least used to) advocate free markets, have not advocated reforms like putting individually purchased health insurance on a level playing field with employer benefits.
Conservatives will say “Repeal Obamacare”, but that only returns us to the prior status quo of what is essentially socialized medicine delegated to employers through the tax code.
Regarding health care & the agreed 'mess' let us not forget the insulting comments of Jonathan Gruber, an MIT economist & one of the main architects of 'Obama Care'. While speaking at a health care October 2013 forum at the University of Pennsylvania he stated. "This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes," he said. "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass." Thank you sir. May I have another?