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I’m confused. Help me understand.
Supporters of our current healthcare system tout its free-market basis. That, they claim, in itself makes our system better than the others. Better means more efficient, more effective. We deliver better care at lower costs. That's what a superior business model accomplishes in a free-market system, right?
Yet, the threat of competition from a 2nd option offered by our very inefficient, very bureaucratic, federal government terrifies the major brands and industries who comprise our healthcare system. I’m from the federal government and I’m here to help is a terrifying competitive threat to their current business model.
Small businesses are the engine of job growth in our economy. The major source of layoffs have come from major brands whose products and services are no longer desired. Small companies arise from innovative solutions being brought to market that meet the current needs of consumers. Thus, jobs are created in these small businesses.
Small businesses are the least able to afford health insurance as a company benefit for their employees. The health insurance industry has a pricing model that eliminates small business as a customer for the group plans offered by health insurance companies.
Small businesses as a result find it more difficult to attract the talent needed to grow their business. Small businesses then can’t grow and create more jobs to replace those eliminated at the large unresponsive national, global, brands.
Healthcare costs then choke the very system, the free-market, capitalist, system whose principles the healthcare providers claim to embody. At least according to it supporters and their ideological zealotry.
So, when CNN reports that healthcare costs choke small business then what it really says is healthcare costs choke our economy.
Is that right? Is that what I understand?
Supporters of our current healthcare system tout its free-market basis. That, they claim, in itself makes our system better than the others. Better means more efficient, more effective. We deliver better care at lower costs. That's what a superior business model accomplishes in a free-market system, right?
Yet, the threat of competition from a 2nd option offered by our very inefficient, very bureaucratic, federal government terrifies the major brands and industries who comprise our healthcare system. I’m from the federal government and I’m here to help is a terrifying competitive threat to their current business model.
Small businesses are the engine of job growth in our economy. The major source of layoffs have come from major brands whose products and services are no longer desired. Small companies arise from innovative solutions being brought to market that meet the current needs of consumers. Thus, jobs are created in these small businesses.
Small businesses are the least able to afford health insurance as a company benefit for their employees. The health insurance industry has a pricing model that eliminates small business as a customer for the group plans offered by health insurance companies.
Small businesses as a result find it more difficult to attract the talent needed to grow their business. Small businesses then can’t grow and create more jobs to replace those eliminated at the large unresponsive national, global, brands.
Healthcare costs then choke the very system, the free-market, capitalist, system whose principles the healthcare providers claim to embody. At least according to it supporters and their ideological zealotry.
So, when CNN reports that healthcare costs choke small business then what it really says is healthcare costs choke our economy.
Is that right? Is that what I understand?
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