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Kentucky legislators learned their lesson and eventually repealed several of those laws, and the health insurance system revived.
Have you, Professor Frakt, been able to game the health insurance system and, if so, can you tell our CNN audience how?
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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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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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.
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.
Preventive services would be carved out of the existing health insurance system and financed through a new, public-private system called the Wellness Trust.
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.
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.
Since the demise of the old system, health-insurance coverage has been patchy and in rural areas mostly non-existent.
Yet, that would not be necessary since simply replacing the tax exclusion with fixed tax credits would greatly expand the number who opted to purchase health insurance even without adding to the total dollar amount of subsidies in the system (does anyone think Bill Gates will drop his health insurance coverage if his subsidy is reduced from 40 percent to, say, 20 or even 10 percent?).
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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.
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.
One obvious consequence will be pressure on the social-insurance system, including health care and pensions, as the working-age population shrinks dramatically.
Instead of reinforcing the current system linking health insurance to employment, we should uncouple the two.
Liberal justices, however, argued that people who don't pay into the health system by purchasing insurance make care more expensive for everyone.
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The ACA will create another government entitlement program (really a health insurance law not a health care delivery system) that will not solve the problem it set out to solve.
In the days before the health-care system began slimming down, most insurance policies covered the procedure.
But not for Michael Moore, who decided that our imperfect system is the fault of insurance companies and more broadly, the free-market aspects of our health care system.
What this reform does is build on the system of private health insurance that we already have.
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The entire system of employee health insurance emerged because of direct federal support for unions and collective bargaining during the formative decades of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
Because citizens must choose between the national system and private health insurance, the current arrangement discourages people from insuring themselves, thereby limiting market forces, stifling innovation and reducing choice.
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.
It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern.
What ever happened to asking questions about the quality of care, the cost of insurance, the impact of any public plan on the health care system?
Mr Howard argues that the 300, 000 people without health insurance who are treated privately pay twice under the current system.
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