Re:Diabetes complications soar in US, but not Canada, as tee...
by lotsofpulp on Thursday May 09, 2019 @02:16PM
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>Having employer-sponsored medical insurance is generally better than Canadian health care.
Some lucky employees in the US have generous health insurance benefits. But the majority, by far, do not. Kaiser itself is a uniquely high performing organization, that serves a very small portion of the US population.
The employer has nothing to do with the quality of the healthcare the patient receives, other than being in a sufficiently lucrative business to be able to pay for nice health insurance. Health insurance and healthcare would be much better for everyone if employers were left out of the whole equation so that more healthy, lower cost lives get mixed in with higher cost lives in order to create a viable marketplace for multiple health insurance companies to be able to compete for business on healthcare.gov.
Some lucky employees in the US have generous health insurance benefits. But the majority, by far, do not. Kaiser itself is a uniquely high performing organization, that serves a very small portion of the US population.
The employer has nothing to do with the quality of the healthcare the patient receives, other than being in a sufficiently lucrative business to be able to pay for nice health insurance. Health insurance and healthcare would be much better for everyone if employers were left out of the whole equation so that more healthy, lower cost lives get mixed in with higher cost lives in order to create a viable marketplace for multiple health insurance companies to be able to compete for business on healthcare.gov.