I'm a small minority in the business community in favor of SB 1085. Too many big insurance companies, brokers and attorneys are bellied up to the feeding trough with the current system. And for businesses, the current system is a known evil – we are afraid of replacing it with something unknown.
Consumer driven health care seems to be the latest attempt to wrestle this situation under control, but it’s a red herring. The whole idea of HSA's and HRA's, for example, just seem to me to be symptoms of a system collapsing under it's own weight. Who else can they find to help prop up the huge inefficient bureaucracy, but sick people!
I even hire a person who spends 75% of her time dealing with our employees and the health plan. She is very efficient and productive, but in reality, she is not producing any goods or services for the economy. She is part of the huge overhead of the system that businesses are expected to pay fund.
We are taught to believe that healthcare is so expensive, the only way to control it is to layer it with a huge mess of insurance plans and lawyers, all trying to save money on their particular piece of the pie and shift costs over to other insurance companies or sick people.
I just wish we could have had a break in the dike that would start the change. I want my healthcare dollar to pay for health care, nothing else.
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