Don’t complain, suggest a better system – for everyone

Healthcare, Observations on life 4 comments
I worked nearly fifty years designing and managing employer health benefit plans and I still don’t know what people want or expect- except their care to be “free”.

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  1. How about not changing the first line supervisors final pay calculation after 30yrs. of service limiting our Overtime …..YOU CHANGED THE RULES IN THE 4TH QUATER OF MY SERVICE…….

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  2. No, Americans don’t believe medical care should be free. They believe YOU should pay for it. Americans want the best health care YOUR money will buy.

    And, so long as Bernie, Liz, President Obama, AOC and others continue to lie to Americans suggesting that health care is a right that someone else should pay for, we will not resolve the “affordability” challenge.

    Why don’t you write a blog that highlights the lies Democrats have told Americans about health care – such as “it won’t add one thin dime to the deficit”, “you can keep your doctor”, “you can keep your plan”, “it will lower the cost to a household by $2,500”?

    Everyone knows Health Reform was a lie to buy votes.

    My favorite is simply Jonathan Gruber, one of the architech’s of Health Reform – first in Massachusetts – During a 2013 panel discussion, the MIT economist and consultant on the health care reform law, remarked:

    “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass.”

    When it comes to legislation, “lack of transparency” = Lies

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    1. Any benefits received from virtually any insurance is paid for by someone else.

      Frankly, I would be happy to never collect a penny in value from what I pay in premiums, especially health care. Unfortunately, my wife’s care has meant we have received hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits paid for by someone else even as our combined premiums are over $2,000 a month.

      The “good news” she is now in the catastrophic Part D level so no Rx copays the rest of the year.

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      1. “Any benefits received from virtually any insurance is paid for by someone else.”

        Obviously not.

        The contributions made on my behalf (which reduced my wages), as well as my own contributions, plus the FICA-Med taxes I paid, and the income taxes (federal and state) that became general revenues for Medicare Part B and Part D and Medicaid, as well as the taxes I paid to fund coverage for members of the Military and the Veterans Administration beneficiaries all reduced my take home pay, one way or another.

        You can say that my current Medicare benefits for recent surgery were paid by someone else, but that’s comparable to the idiot ass Obama who once said:

        “Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” – forgetting, of course, that this business man was one of many who likely paid the taxes that built the roads and bridges!

        Same for my medical benefits – believe me, I paid more, much more in premiums, contributions, taxes than I will ever receive in benefits.

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