I think both sides are framing the problem incorrectly
The problem, to me, isn't health insurance per se. It is the cost of healthcare itself.
Quick example - caught my thumb in a table saw about ten years ago. Ouch. In the end, I got a ride to the hospital with the rescue squad, an x-ray, some morphine and a tetanus shot, the wound cleaned, and a few stitches. Pretty basic medical supplies, plus maybe 90 minutes total of attention by a medical professional (between the EMT's, the doctor, a nurse, and the radiologist).
In my head, I'm adding all that up and I'm getting to, AT MOST, $500-700 worth of services provided. Except the bill was $22,000.
If you send me a bill for $500, I would just pay it. I made a mistake, got injured, and $500 is a perfectly reasonable stupid tax to teach me a lesson. Shouldn't even need insurance for that.
But instead we have a system where health care bills are about 50-100x what a reasonable fee would be.
The quality and availability of health insurance isn't the root problem. The root problem is health care costs have crossed from ludicrous to plaid.
And honestly, by focusing on health insurance, I think we are feeding the problem instead of fixing it. Health care costs are the insurance company's problem, not the consumer's (or the voter's) problem. So there is no capitalistic pressure to keep prices down.
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Posted: 06/29/2017 at 6:27PM