Originally Posted by
Dubya61
DE, you're right. *I don't want my employer involved in my health care. *Honestly, neither does it.
Two years ago, it had no impact. *Way back then, if you will recall, health insurance was something called a benefit. *As a benefit, employers had another tool to attract good employees. *Now employers are required to provide health insurance that meets certain specifications. *It appears that it was the PPACA that got my employer involved as a middleman in my healthcare.
The healthcare specified by the insurance that my employer offers doesn't meet the standards that I want. *Know what I did? *I purchased better insurance from another source. *There are several others that I know of that do the same. *That is what people who don't like the stipulations of the insurance that HL would LIKE to provide should do: *seek out other insurance and purchase it.
Instead of this solution, President Obama and Representative Pelosi ramrodded through congress a new edict -- a one size fits all mandated level of care that apparently will be administered through insurance companies and government panels.. *Instead of taking a look at what makes medicine cost so much, they devised to take insurance to task. *Instead of looking at tort reform, they decided that insurance was the problem. *That's kind of like making employers subsidize the price of gasoline when a preponderance of Americans can't afford to drive their gas guzzler SUVs for a 50 mile daily commute. *There are probably other more logical solutions to attempt out there. *Sadly, we see problems with health care and think it's an insurance problem. *You ever see Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? *Remember the scene where Steve Martin and John Candy are proceeding down the wrong dude of the interstate and a fellow traveller (on the right side of the interstate) tries to tell them, "You're going the wrong way." *Apparently the wrong synapse fires off in John Candy's brain and asks, "How do the know where we're going?" *Some time ago, someone announced that medical costs were obscene and the wrong synapse fired off to detour that thought process off on the insurance tangent.
HL should be able to offer the insurance it wants to as s benefit to it's employees. *Americans should be able to get health care they need at a reasonable price. *Those two great concepts are only*tangentially related -- at least they were before the PPACA. * *Now, not much -- and health care STILL is obscenely expexsive.
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