Hence, government policy artificially injects the employer into the relationship between a patient and the health insurance system.
Kentucky legislators learned their lesson and eventually repealed several of those laws, and the health insurance system revived.
We know the American people want us to reform our health insurance system.
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Next week is our chance to finally reform our health insurance system so it works for families and small businesses.
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But since our health insurance system usually pays the providers themselves, there is not much reason to be a value-conscious shopper.
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Have you, Professor Frakt, been able to game the health insurance system and, if so, can you tell our CNN audience how?
Imagine a health insurance system similar to accident forgiveness in auto insurance?
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The U.S. has an employer-based health insurance system, with nearly 90 percent of privately insured working Americans getting their coverage from their employers.
Preventive services would be carved out of the existing health insurance system and financed through a new, public-private system called the Wellness Trust.
Who says we need to reform our private health insurance system?
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If anyone here truly believes our health insurance system is working well for people, I respect your right to say so, but I just don't agree.
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As Keck characterizes it, the South Carolina plan focuses on fixing the health care system, while the Obama administration focuses on fixing the health insurance system.
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But there is still work to be done, a major piece of which is enacting reforms to our health insurance system that will expand access to care.
Fiorina, however, said McCain's plan would not undermine the employee-based health insurance system because employers would continue to offer health coverage to attract and keep quality employees.
We will also keep working towards the reform of a health insurance system whose costs and discriminatory practices are bankrupting our families, our businesses, and our government.
It would be the same as well as the health insurance system that federal employees enjoy, where workers each choose among a menu of private health insurance alternatives.
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Another foundation stone is fixing a health insurance system that works better for insurance industry than it does for the American people. (Applause.) I do not quit.
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Most people have extra private insurance to cover areas that are not eligible for reimbursement by the public health insurance system and many make out of pocket payments to see a doctor.
In 2004, a presidential candidate wanted to add to the existing health insurance system of our country, which is private sector and employer-based, those that are currently uninsured and ensure that they have accessible, affordable coverage.
Because even the best-trained worker in the world can't compete if our businesses are saddled with rapidly increasing health care costs, we are fighting to do what we have discussed in this country for generations -- finally reforming our nation's broken health insurance system and relieving this unsustainable burden.
And while the inescapable and obvious result is that increased financial pressure is placed on the private health insurance system at the expense of removing some of the financial pressure on the government run Medicare system, what may not be quite so obvious is the additional financial pressure placed on even the youngest and healthiest people in the private health insurance pools.
Critics also said encouraging individuals to buy health insurance could undermine the system of employee-based health insurance, with no guarantee a new system would emerge to replace it.
Yes, there are all sorts of things that can be said about the US health care insurance system.
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Court decisions have helped to bankrupt the national health-insurance system, only 45% of whose members now pay full contributions.
Much like drivers in most states are required to purchase car insurance, all Americans will have a responsibility to get and keep health insurance in a system where insurance will now be affordable.
Currently, health care systems focus primarily on chronic ill health, rather than the preventative measures of living a healthy lifestyle, but this may be the adjustment that both the health care system and insurance companies make as a result of digital health devices.
Romney has recently floated the idea of an individual-deduction cap, the savings from which could easily fund a universal health insurance tax-credit system, depending on how the cap was structured.
With an estimated 43 million Americans lacking health insurance and a medical care system that eats up ever-larger percentage of the gross domestic product, health care remains an intractable issue.
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And when you think back to the health care debate, despite calls for a single-payer, government-run health care plan, we passed reform that maintains our system of private health insurance.
Instead of reinforcing the current system linking health insurance to employment, we should uncouple the two.
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