
What Broke American Health Care?
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Is Your Employer Better at Purchasing Health Insurance?
People don't want to shop for health insurance. But there are benefits in the sense that your employer, maybe h can be better at purchasing health insurance than you are. The federal acode dramatically increases by about 33%. And as for buying power of employers, you'd think that because if employers are buying medical care on behalf of a large number of people, then they should be able to negotiate better discounts. We saw some of this in the 19 nineties when employers used some of these tools to try manage care,. Thereis a huge back lash, and employers had to undo those steps.
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