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The other day, I was trying to figure out why the paycheck deduction for my health insurance was higher than I had expected. When I called my insurer to ask what the total premium was, the customer service representative said it was none of my business.
Three-fifths of Americans, the share with employer-provided health insurance, are in the same situation: Since someone else buys insurance for them, using money they would otherwise receive as wages, they are in no position to shop around and typically do not even know the true cost of their coverage. This disconnect between payment and...
The Consumer Is Not the Customer
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Health care costs have skyrocketed in perfect concert with government meddling - beginning with Medicare and then, more sharply, following the HMO Act.
Government needs to be rolled back to what's enumerated in the Constitution. Every time they stray from that we get an insolvent entitlement program that leads to theft from the general fund and extortion - like robbing retirees of the SS benefits if they opt out of Medicare.