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[quote=Anonymous]No health care bill will ever pass Congress without some concessions to the insurance industry. The reason we have Medicare and Medicaid in the first place is because insurers only want to cover young healthy people with jobs and leave the rest to the government. But over time the insurers have figured out how to get pieces of Medicare and Medicaid subsidies while still cherry-picking to avoid taking the risk of taking care of the old, the chronically ill, or the poor. So we have Medicare Advantage, Medicare Part D, Medicaid Managed Care, and similar programs that contract with insurance companies at higher costs. Obamacare is the government overpaying insurance companies to cover the people they don't want to cover. Also, unwinding employer provided health insurance would be political heavy lifting because most companies and employees would see it as a tax increase. The tax code and public opinion heavily favor paying premiums for employer provided care than paying taxes for government provided care. [/quote]

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