to employment in this scenario.

I think we need to get employers out of the picture as well.

hopefully with a reasonable monthly cost to the individual or family.

policies.

They swear up and down that Medicare is already bankrupting the US and you want to expand it.

Nonetheless, you have my full permission to make them cry.

They cry if you even mention medicare.

The Republican congress is just about equal in uselessness to the health insurance industry.

They both receive free money way above and beyond what they earn or deserve.

Who wouldn't want to keep that gig going for as long as possible.

Take away the false, irresponsible media and they wouldn't last one election cycle.

I was thinking the same thing ... I'd look to see healthcare financing de-coupled from employers. But as much as folks love to hate the ACA, I'm seeing more and more evidence that it will be the slow, but certain, death of for-profit healthcare insurance companies.

Because mandating enrichment of insurance companies will make them just whither and die!

Today's news was about how doctors drum up huge extra fees by getting extra work as assistants in hospital surgeries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/us/drive-by-doctoring-surprise-medical-bills.html?_r=0

Just like the company that self-insured and then started rationing care because of some high bills. What if companies tied bonuses to not using insurance? What if employers cut salaries if they were losing money on it (most of the big corps who self insure actually make money)? And who the hell would want their employer knowing all the intimate details of your health?

Single payer is the only answer.

someone who was once inside speaks out now. But, while he was on the inside, he was part of the problem. But, again, he is speaking out. Some just take their pensions and remain silent.

See? Mixed.

I've read his book. I think he's sincere. He knows the system is broken.

Boeing may be playing a bit of poker with the insurance industry. Lower employer contributions is most likely the goal. imho

I have concluded that he is authentic. Of course we are highly suspicious and rightly so.

he collected his paycheck from insurers throughout his career. IOW, he was a perp.

He got rich on the business of charging too much for health insurance, then giving sick people a hard time when they tried to collect. Only after he retired from it, with a nice pension package, no doubt, did he became a whistleblower. So, I will never respect him much, no matter how authentic he is today.

Still, as I said, it's better to have someone, even a perp, talking about it than to have no one talking about it. So, I will always have very mixed feelings when I see Potter's name.

Deserves.

your health care comes after your birth is registered just like your social security card (in fact using the same number would simplify matters).

This should be a human right.

If insurers have any role at all it should be in the secondary insurance (optional treatments) and life insurance realms.