The solution I would like to see is that instead of just offloading the cost of individual health care to the collective whole of all America, we address the underlying absurd costs of healthcare, itself.
If healthcare insurance were treated like automobile insurance, it would be affordable for the individual and it would remain the individual's responsibility to take care of it themselves.
Instead, our solution to a $20,000 ER visit is to move the expense from the person receiving the treatment to the entire tax-payer base . . . the health care industry still benefits, either way and only those paying the bill for everyone feel the negative impact.
Why is our only solution "more government! More taxes! pay for everyone else's problems!". Why can't we find a way to address the pricing, in the first place? Why is this not even a discussion that has been had?
If healthcare insurance were treated like automobile insurance, it would be affordable for the individual and it would remain the individual's responsibility to take care of it themselves.
Instead, our solution to a $20,000 ER visit is to move the expense from the person receiving the treatment to the entire tax-payer base . . . the health care industry still benefits, either way and only those paying the bill for everyone feel the negative impact.
Why is our only solution "more government! More taxes! pay for everyone else's problems!". Why can't we find a way to address the pricing, in the first place? Why is this not even a discussion that has been had?
Oh, right. Lobbyists.