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Originally Posted by Dan40
A reasoned, logical, measured approach.
A bipartisan agreement on what are the top 5 problems. What are the top 10?
Even if only the top 2 problems could be agreed, fix them. PASS THAT, then move on to the next. Its a hundred year old problem. It is never going to be fixed in one fell swoop by either party. Step by step, an agreement or a compromise PASSED. Then on to the next. Everybody gets credit, everybody gets the benefits.
Any other approach by any party in power will end up the way we are today.
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I agree with your sentiment. But according to a documentary I heard, the problem basically goes back to WW II. America is the only major country where health care is largely provided by employers. That became popular during WW II when wage controls forced employers to use lucrative fringe benefits to compete for workers. A short while later, the IRS institutionalized the situation by ruling that health insurance benefits are not taxable as income. Those two semi-random acts put in motion the current system. Since then, employees have sought out tax free health care benefits as preferable to taxed income. If that one thing were changed, every worker would see insurance premiums as something bought with his own money rather than the employer's money. That would change a lot about how people view and use health insurance.