More cuts:

Why your boss is strumping your wife - MarketWatch


I wonder when Joe will believe me that Obamacare was designed to destroy the private health insurance market. I'll keep waiting.

 

• Richer nations tend to spend more, regardless of how they structure their healthcare systems.

• The United States is halfway down the road to a single-payer system thanks to programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

• America’s pervasive government-created third-party payer system leads to high prices and costly inefficiency.

• Government is the problem and less government is the solution.

 

New Obamacare Regulation Invites Whistleblower Complaints | CNS News

 

Countries like Mexico don't spend it because try don't have it... But Singapore however, I wander how it's handled there.

 

Singapore is a free market champion, like switzerland; unlike the US. Their GNI per capita is greater than US as well. They are a fast growing, rich nation, that understands the gov't doesn't have to keep their citizens poor and in chains.


good read on switzerland: Why Switzerland Has the World's Best Health Care System

 

Countries like Mexico also have some of the strictest gun laws written and their Chiefs of Police keep getting murdered...by guns.

 

I'm still working through the details - healthcare economics is not my strong suit - but it looks like our company is reducing benefits/increasing (premium and out of pocket) costs on our healthcare, largely because our previous plan would be considered a "Cadillac healthcare plan."

 

eat the rich!

 

GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit - By Andrew Stiles - The Corner - National Review Online


not one dime. Just 62,000,000,000 dimes.

 

ftfy

 

More than 700 pages of healthcare rules released - The Hill's RegWatch

It took the Obama administration more than 700 pages to explain four Obamacare rules on Friday.

 

I just can't see the motivation for it.

Why would the President of the United States wish to abolish private insurance firms and implement a state-run health insurance system?


Nor the how of it.

Insurance companies are large, profitable corporations administered at the top levels by smart people with a desire to make money. These individuals are unlikely to just throw up their hands and say "we give up."



Consider primary education, as it is an excellent parallel topic. The various state governments have long mandated that all children must attend school, and have instituted taxpayer-funded schools for them to attend. This was not always so. Publicly funded schools were rare in the 19th century, typically organized and administered at the community level. It was not until the early 20th century that elementary education became universally mandatory, and state-run schools became universally accessible.

What must the people of that time have thought? The government wishes to abolish our community schools and create a single-payer system for education.

And yet private schools continue to exist. In the US, fully 25% of all K-12 schools are private. Many are affiliated with a religious institution, and increasingly many are not. The number of students enrolled in private schools at the K-12 levels has, in fact, steadily increased at single digit levels as a percentage of all students enrolled in school.



Why, then, will an industry such as insurance, which is much more profitable and lucrative than schooling, fare so much worse?



I guess I'm just an idiot, but I need this to be explained to me in simple terms that I can understand. Not what, but why and how?


Is employer-sponsored health insurance likely to decline in the years to come as a result of increased overhead from the AHCA? Quite possibly it may. But to be frank, employer-sponsored health insurance is part of the problem, as it masks an understanding of the true economics of healthcare from those whom it benefits.

 

obama hates you is how and why.

 

Obama Proposes Government Mandates For Universal Preschool Programs | OCCUPY CORPORATISM

Obama proposes universal pre-school - The Washington Post

 

It is all about control of every facet of our lives. Look at the assaults on 2A.

 

Obamacare May Bite You At The Vet’s Office « CBS Miami

 

Feds let Medicare provider give away $20 grocery cards to lure patients | Washington Guardian

 

Five Guys: Obamacare will boost burger prices | WashingtonExaminer.com





Some Fluff on the Media's reaction:

Matt Yglesias at Slate.com called Ruffer a liar because, you know, Yglesias knows the hamburger business better than the North Carolina entrepreneur:
Yglesias then negates his own argument for the sake of demonizing all corporations who dare to make profits with their businesses: (emphasis mine)Center for American Progress, John Podesta's team of bullies, basically called Ruffer a dead-beat for denying his employees "basic health care": Center for American Progress goes on to claim that companies who have gone public with the problems implementing Obamacare suffer due to the bad publicity they receive. They point to Olive Garden as an example: The claim that criticizing Obamacare hurts your bottom line due to bad publicity is a self-fulfilling prophesy as Center for American Progress is one of the driving forces trying to drum up that bad publicity by trying to bully skittish CEOs who don't want any bad publicity ever for anything.

The report on Olive Garden points to a Huffington Post article titled Darden Restaurants Profit Plunges 37 Percent After Bad Publicity Over Attempt To Skirt Obamacare. Ironically, Huffington Post also weighed in on the Five Guys story thus showing the chain of information flow from liberal think tank to liberal media outlets and back again.

The clear lesson to businesses like Five Guys, or Olive Garden, or Papa John's, or Wendy's, or Whole Foods is obvious: If you dare criticize Obamacare, the media will out you, bully you and shame you into silence. Forget about the news. Forget about the truth. The White House can not be criticized.

 

This whole things really points back to the question of who should be providing health insurance.

Currently, it seems like employers are the main provider/subsidizer of health insurance.

One could argue that Obamacare's "unintended" consequences are intended to push that balance more towards the Federal and state government as subsidizing the majority of health insurance.

I hear very few people ask why either should be the primary subsidizer of that product. I guess the real answer is that, with a high stock of unemployed persons and increasing push toward a polarization of skill in service and manufacturing positions, if employers stopped subsidizing health insurance, there is almost no way they would increase wages by a like amount.


That is, if my employer stopped paying for a majority of my health insurance and instead I went out to the marketplace and bought it myself, there is almost no way my employer would give me a raise equal to or greater than the additional amount I would be out of pocket to cover 100% of my insurance expenses.

 

My last employer did just this. They stopped providing the benefits but gave us all an across the board a 28% lump some calculated by our salary that would continue to rise with our salary just for purchasing health insurance. For most people it resulted in a raise because they did not choose to buy the most expensive plans. I know for me after getting all of my benefits including dental, vision, health insurance, and cancer protection I came out ahead like 5k. It was nice. Too bad the moral in the place was terrible so I left for another job.

EDIT: From what I was told by our HR person this type of plan is becoming more common because it often saves the employer money somehow. I am not really sure how that works but I just assumed they were anticipating huge increases in premiums and that this was a way of offloading those future costs onto the employees and making it look like a gift at the same time.