Healthcare, American Style

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"The United States now spends more on healthcare than any other developed nation, yet has some 47 million people without health insurance. Most insured people receive coverage through their employers but businesses complain that exploding costs threaten their competitiveness in a global market."

This year my employee changed it's insurance provider, which meant a lot of new forms to fill out for me. The old plan had increased its rates by over twenty percent for the second year in a row. The new plan, the cheapest they could find, still represents a double digit cost increase, as has happened every year for at least four. How exactly does anyone think this current system is going to work?!

Health insurance companies are extremely badly run. I know, I used to work for one. This situation just make me angry. It is way past time for a single payer system that can cut out the overhead. It's way past time that voters wake up and stop being manipulated by those that profit from the disaster that is American private health insurance.