Democrats organize to fight back

[Warren Dew]

(11-18-2016, 12:56 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(11-18-2016, 11:41 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: For those of us who care about societal efficiency and the financial stability of the health care system, though, private insurance does a very good job on cost controls.  Perhaps you don't look at your insurance statements, but I do, and typically private insurance pays about 1/3 of the health care providers' "normal" rates.

If you want health care costs to rise several times the rate of inflation, then private insurance is your cup of tea.

The only way to avoid that is to ration or to have the people who are getting the medical service to pay for it themselves.  I agree that the current system that ties health care to the employer has problems in that respect.  Better would be for the employer to pay that money to the employee and for the employee to choose his own health care freely.