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

To: dybdahl who wrote (19968)	11/11/2010 11:35:41 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

an employer-based health insurance is to take the choice away from the employee I have long been in favor of getting the employer out of the health care business and have so argued on this thread. There are lots of arguments for that. it has all the negative parts of socialized health care. I think that most socialized health care systems buy services at external providers, so both have a competitive factor. But limiting the choice of the employee to one or a few plans picked by the employer is hardly socialization. Not just because they share some effects. Or have some competitive elements in common. Socialization is where the government owns the system, not just meddles in it or uses similar tools and techniques. Likewise the government contracting out elements of implementation does not make it a market system. Are there any rules, that employer-provided health care insurances may not be arranged with insurance companies, that also deliver other services to the company, like financing or insuring the company? I know nothing about the regulation of employer-provided health care. Sorry.