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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (6512)	3/25/2009 9:28:52 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

but the employer involvement (and the tax breaks which helped cause the employer involvement to exist and than to become more "generous") is a major force behind the change even if it isn't the only one. Yeah, it certainly sped the process along, I'll say that much. I just think we were headed here either way. It is how the insurance companies ratchet up profits. High deductibles make sense for most people, but I don't think most people opt for them when presented with a choice. If you take a person with no health insurance who takes out a policy with extremely high deductibles, they benefit immensely just from the repricing they obtain under the plan.