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> Currently 2/3 of non-elderly people have insurance through their employers. If we need to extend coverage to those who don’t have it, those 2/3 will have to p
by asveikau 7y ago
> Currently 2/3 of non-elderly people have insurance through their employers. If we need to extend coverage to those who don’t have it, those 2/3 will have to pay for the other 1/3
I thought the uninsured rate was closer to 10%. Some googling suggests 8% or 9%. This is short of 33%.
Of course many are insured but under insured, or insured but paying (or in I guess 66% of cases having their employer pay) for massive amounts of waste. There are entire industries like medical billing which don't strictly need to exist.
- kasey_junk 7y agoInsured through their employer is different than insured.
- asveikau 7y agoYes but he implied that the employer-insured need to pay for both non-employer-insured and uninsured. If his 2/3rd figure is correct we can say it's about 23% in the former and 10% in the latter, but he just says 2/3rd needs to pay for 1/3rd. If the 23% are already paying, why do they need a subsidy from someone else's employer? I guess there is an affordability issue and rising costs ... but this is true for everyone, even those who mask it by going through their employer.