Reply #10: Shift the paradigm, please [View All]

It's not a question of who pays for health insurance. It's a question of why health insurance (such as it is) is necessary in the first place.

What is the insurance business doing meddling in matters of health? Health is not a "business." Health is not an "industry." It only looks that way because corporations (pharmas and insurance, most notoriously) know that there's big bucks to be made by meddling in health matters.

Health care should be free. "Insurance" is a complete contrivance, a canard. It is not necessary.

The question you should be asking, Mountainman, is "why can't I just show up at the doctor's when I'm sick, and receive treatment?" "Why can't I visit the pharmacy and receive the medicine I need?" "Why does someone's pocket need to be enriched from my misery?"

Turn that rock over, baby...and see what's underneath.