Your care runs out when your money runs out.
The current system is flat unworkable.
Why?
Because costs are rising at about 22% per year, year over year.
Are your wages rising at that pace?
How about the company you're working for? Is it growing at that pace?
Are prices of their products or labor increasing at that pace?
I am all for a govt offered option. I don't want the govt deciding anything for my care, but I would like the option. If they were smart, they would create a huge fund and self insure from that. If the insurance companies decided they wanted to compete, fine. If not, then goodby.
All the while, I would have the option of choosing what insurance I wanted.
It also INFURIATES me that I walked into the ER with no insurance about a year ago and am charged prices three times higher than the insurance companies pay, and I was paying cash!
I would love to see the entire system decimated and rebuilt from the ground up.
And, no I don't buy the whole "govt can't run it BS". Funny thing is we are 37th in quality of care of industrial countries. Seems interesting that the countries that are doing better than us don't have folks dropping like flies and the govts in many cases are overseeing their healthcare.
Just like I shouldn't need to go see a GP to get a referral to a specialist that I already know I needed to see...
It's stupid.
Steve