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Employer based health insurance should be abolished. There should be one risk pool either nation or state wide and within that everybody can get insurance for t
by spaetzleesser 6y ago
Employer based health insurance should be abolished. There should be one risk pool either nation or state wide and within that everybody can get insurance for the same price. It would reduce a lot of administrative effort in companies (why does my employer have to worry about my health insurance but not my car insurance?) and allow people to change jobs without worrying about health care. Religious employers also couldn't control things like birth control because health insurance would be none of their business.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoI like this idea, especially nation wide. I think the US should set one up along side private policies though as a stepping stone so people can see/envy it. You will never ever get rid of private insurance in one fell swoop it will take steps.
- TheOsiris 6y agoit should be, and it needs to be if we ever want to fix this problem, but it'll be political suicide for anyone that even says this out loud. corporations would be all for it to. (majority of) people with jobs have no idea how bad/expensive healthcare really is. they have excellent insurance coverage and they pay very little for it. if we make them responsible for buying their own it'll be impossibly expensive. but this is exactly what they need to realize so that we can have the political movement to overhaul the entire system
- spaetzleesser 6y ago"they pay very little for it." That belief is the problem. You pay for it with reduced salary. Problem is that this fact is being hidden. Then you also have your employer choose insurance plans for you but their selection criteria are most likely for their own benefit.