“and push harder to cut costs”
The only solution. The medical industry always pushes to increase their income. Employer-provided insurance has resulted in “that cost is crazy but I don’t have to pay it so I’ll give it no further thought”.
Those of that need health care services and products, which is all of us, have been like frogs in the pan as the water is slowly heated. Now it’s pretty hot, huh?
The pressure to cut costs will cause the medical industry to scream. It’s like hammering iron into a new shape. You heat it red hot. Smells are emitted, a few sparks fly, you pound it, the ignorant ones think the chunk is being destroyed. But ultimately it’s given the new shape, it cools off, and everything is fine.
We users of healthcare services and products will have to accept cutbacks as well.
Liberals use trial lawyers to destroy what they want to replace.
Name anything on the liberal agenda list, and you'll find trial lawyers trying to bankrupt or crimminalize their opponents. The trial lawyers are the lefts PC police. They're todays brown shirts.
Tort reform would get them out of the way, and health care costs would plummet overnight. Their hands would be tied.
Did you miss my post? The main cost driver for "healthcare inflation" is recouping losses from underpayment by government programs and other "free healthcare".
Providers need to be forced to pay for bad debt and charity care with some other funding mechanism.
Employer-provided insurance has resulted in “that cost is crazy but I don’t have to pay it so I’ll give it no further thought”.
Partially correct. Consumer driven healthcare (shopping) would go a long way towards creating competition among the providers. But that has nothing to do with the employer. The employer could still offer HSAs as a benefit.
The "group" aspect offers a lower group rate, as well as guaranteed issue. (if you're healthy enough to work, you're healthy enough to insure)