Tag: Employer Health Care Trap
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You CANNOT Have Profit Incentive At The Core Of A Health CARE System
Some ideas are so stupid, you have to marvel how they don’t die at their inception. Example — having profit incentive inside a health care system. Of course we want people to “make money” doing their jobs in a health care system. That’s not the same thing however as having corporations step in as gatekeepers…
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Dear America – We Have A Health INSURANCE System, Not A Health CARE System; They’re NOT The Same Thing
Until we get the framing right, we’ll never fix the problem: our health CARE system is broken because it’s NOT a health CARE system. It’s a health INSURANCE system. The first question anyone gets asked when they walk into any facility for health CARE isn’t “How can we fix you?”, it’s “How ya gonna pay…
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Get Used To A Gig Economy. It’s The Future For Most of Us
Back when I was growing up, there still existed this ‘notion’ that one’s goal was to educate oneself just enough to score a job with a Big Employer who would then be ‘Your Daddy’ till the day you retired. And, as your Employer was the source of your pension, too — they were going to…