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This is the best idea. Having employers involved in healthcare and retirement is really crummy. These vestiges of history have been corrupted into massive hando
by the_optimist 5y ago
This is the best idea. Having employers involved in healthcare and retirement is really crummy. These vestiges of history have been corrupted into massive handouts to the insurance and financial industries, and there is no reason they need to exist.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoMy #1 problem with the Affordable Care Act was that it tried to mandate universal health insurance coverage while leaving employer-sponsored insurance in place. If they were going to mandate that we urinate our money away to insurance companies (rather than assess an honest tax for single-payer healthcare), they should have prohibited employer-sponsored healthcare benefits to force everyone into the same insurance pool.
- lotsofpulp 5y ago“They” tried, but insufficient politicians supported it. Everything about ACA was as that it was a compromise to even get that much. The only other option was to not have had healthcare reform at all. I think ACA will go down in history as a pretty impressive effort that at least did something to increase the number of people with access to healthcare.