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stewacide · 09-27-2005, 05:44 PM

It's one thing for the United States to have a free-market healthcare system, but for Americans to then expect employers to provide everyone open-ended coverage is contradictory nonsensical. Either Americans accept that in a free market there's no free lunch and they'll have to pay for their own private insurance or per-service out-of-pocket, or they accept the limitations of a universal system. Clearly they can't have it both ways any longer...

Does anyone else find it ironic that the American model of employer-provided social services is closest to the USSR/China social model? Most other developed economies have realized that businesses are in the business of doing business, not providing social services for anyone they ever employed AND their relatives!!

09-27-2005, 05:44 PM	#3 (permalink)
stewacide 3.0 Liter SIDI V6 Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 579	Re: Sears Retirees Lose Health Benefits It's one thing for the United States to have a free-market healthcare system, but for Americans to then expect employers to provide everyone open-ended coverage is contradictory nonsensical. Either Americans accept that in a free market there's no free lunch and they'll have to pay for their own private insurance or per-service out-of-pocket, or they accept the limitations of a universal system. Clearly they can't have it both ways any longer... Does anyone else find it ironic that the American model of employer-provided social services is closest to the USSR/China social model? Most other developed economies have realized that businesses are in the business of doing business, not providing social services for anyone they ever employed AND their relatives!! Last edited by stewacide : 09-27-2005 at 05:47 PM.