So under my tree I found Health Care "reform"

TOR has dedicated many daily-blogs and tons of bandwidth to discuss how twisted and backwards Health Care is in this country. I have watched battles between friends from the Insurance side vs friends from the near communist side and am still not convinced anybody has any legitimate answers.

One of the great ironies is that the insurance companies and their proxy warriors all scream about the cost of the bill to the taxpayers. They all want free enterprise and free market to control costs and don't think there should be any government involvement. The guys working for Big Insurance want the structure to stay the same because they know they are printing money. What gets me is that they point to the cost of healthcare reform and say it will bankrupt our country and that the government shouldn't have to pay for it

- most insurance is paid for indirectly by the Federal Government today. Let me explain; the average worker gets his insurance through his company. The company offers him this insurance because his company takes a big deduction against payroll taxes to cover him. So indirectly the government is paying for his health care anyway.
You ask why this is, probably because insurance if paid for by an individual is so godly expensive that they couldn't afford it. If his company didn't get the tax break, they couldn't afford it. So the one who pays is the government.


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