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What’s all this fighting about?, Pt.7 – All is not lost, there’s still hope.

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So, if we consider that Mr. O is referencing the successful Massachusetts health insurance model, administrated by the Commonwealth Fund, then the probability is that Mr. O will also apply the ‘as mush as 7%’ rule, or something close to it. Unless my arithmetic is flawed, then, it would appear that the new hire at ‘$24,000-a-year’ would not cost the employer $12,000 extra for not providing health insurance, but something closer to $1,680, max. If this ‘small’ detail were just an oversight, then it would be a 714% oversight. Not exactly ‘small potatoes’. Perhaps it would not be so detrimental, it certainly wasn’t in Massachusetts. We set minimum responsibility standards on building codes so we’re not like Haiti. We set responsibility standards on child support. Do we have any responsibility standards for our employment industry? Do we have any responsibility standards for our health insurance industry?

The next point, Sally touches on is a good one. That is, the question of insuring those with chronic, or expensive health problems. What do we do about these people? Ignore them? Do we view health insurance the same as they view buying a car? Or do we view health insurance more like the right to safe drinking water? If we just ignore these people, then perhaps, we’ll have to relinquish the title of ‘developed country’. None of the other countries does this. So if one of our leaders steps up and says “We can’t do this. It’s just too expensive”, some one else must raise the ‘red flag’ and say “Hold on, Dr. No! This is not acceptable.”

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