health care was only EVER tied to employment when the US put a freeze on wages in the 1930s and, predictably, set up artificial markets.
I do not feel sorry for this womanat all. When I was admitted to the NY Bar as an attorney 18 years ago, there was no "health care" for us.
As ROBERT REICH wrote in his mini-masterpiece SUPERCAPITALISM, for the US to survive health care must be divorced from work.
My financial life was obliterated by the chirade of a health care system in place - who gets it? Happy people with jobs, no illnesses who don't need it anyway. But for the kindness of my family, I'd be dead, and the jerks who say no job, no health care can all go to hell. Or are we already the...

health care was only EVER tied to employment when the US put a freeze on wages in the 1930s and, predictably, set up artificial markets.
I do not feel sorry for this womanat all. When I was admitted to the NY Bar as an attorney 18 years ago, there was no "health care" for us.
As ROBERT REICH wrote in his mini-masterpiece SUPERCAPITALISM, for the US to survive health care must be divorced from work.
My financial life was obliterated by the chirade of a health care system in place - who gets it? Happy people with jobs, no illnesses who don't need it anyway. But for the kindness of my family, I'd be dead, and the jerks who say no job, no health care can all go to hell. Or are we already there? Do not get sick in this "country" unless you have wasp mafia connections that go to the top - I do not use hyperbole

/RCCN/

Hi ianschneider!

As the cost of health insurance continues to rise, the employer-based model well become unsustainable. On the other hand, the individual market for health insurance does a poor job of providing coverage for entire families.

The future looks bleak. Congressional leaders have promised to expand the SCHIP program, which will tend to perpetuate the instability and fragmentation of care. Then they will begin the effort to patch together the great multitude of private plans into some semblance of a social insurance program. They will fail miserably because the U.S. private plans, based on a business model, have no glue to hold them together. The private insurers will continue to...

Hi ianschneider!

As the cost of health insurance continues to rise, the employer-based model well become unsustainable. On the other hand, the individual market for health insurance does a poor job of providing coverage for entire families.

The future looks bleak. Congressional leaders have promised to expand the SCHIP program, which will tend to perpetuate the instability and fragmentation of care. Then they will begin the effort to patch together the great multitude of private plans into some semblance of a social insurance program. They will fail miserably because the U.S. private plans, based on a business model, have no glue to hold them together. The private insurers will continue to fight to insure only the healthy - the eighty percent of people who use only twenty percent of health care - while selling us an excess of superfluous administrative services. They will dump on us most of the actual costs of health care - the eighty percent of health care spending - through taxes, cost shifting, or simply relying on our stretched-thin charity.

It is astounding that the policy community continues to pursue these fragmented, incremental reforms that pump up costs while leaving health care in a tattered, dysfunctional state. With a single payer national health program, at least the entire family would have affordable access to the professionals and hospitals of their choice. That would be a great start.