Talgrath

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

There comes a point where the bottom falls out of an unsustainable system, and private health insurance in the US is on an unsustainable path. Is this moment the moment private health insurance collapses? Maybe. At the very least, this will accelerate the dire issues already present in the

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

damaged rural healthcare systems. Immigration policies are discouraging and preventing nurses and doctors from other countries from emigrating to the US. The majority of people in poor areas are either on medicare, medicaid or ACA plans; the exact spots that are desperate for doctors and nurses,

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

prescription for about the same price as you would with insurance. Similarly, as health insurance has gotten more expensive and less useful, employers increasingly ask employees to fit some of the bill. This leads to healthy employees opting opt of health insurance, shrinking the pool of payers.

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

Ever since, the Republican party has been chipping away at the benefits of the #ACA and now, they've finally killed it off. So now, given a choice between many hundreds or thousands of dollars more for health insurance or food and shelter, most people will choose food and shelter.

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

5. As the benefits of healthcare diminish, the appeal of having them as a work benefit decrease. In short, the pool of people paying in increasingly only includes sick people who pay in less than the benefits they get. The pools are getting smaller. And the benefits are becoming less attractive.

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

Take, for example this article by Humphrey Taylor, a researcher, titled "How And Why The Health Insurance System Will Collapse" (behind a paywall, FYI): www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1... Humphrey Taylor is also not a lefty by any means, and he's writing this in 2002.

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

As a young lad in the far off time of 2010, I'm sitting in an airport, bored out of my mind. I go and look around the airport, and wind up buying an overpriced copy of "Naked Economics". Chapter 5 has a passage that caught my attention, discussing potential collapse of private healthcare.

A lot of the initial coverage of the death of the #ACA has focused on the loss of coverage for families and the huge increase in costs. As we enter the longest, darkest month of the year, I want to talk about another looming darkness: the completely collapse of the private health insurance industry.

Tylenol, the brand name, was invented in 1955. If Tylenol causes autism, we should have seen a giant spike in the data in the 1970's and 80's. If Tylenol causes autism, then basically everyone alive in America should have autism right now.

Charlie Kirk was shot while arguing against gun restrictions, blaming mass shootings on trans people and gangs. He was shot at a university that tried to ban guns from campus, that was stopped by Republicans spurred on by Kirk and his fellow right wing pundits. The irony cannot get any thicker.

If this plot was written into a drama show, everyone would go "That's fucking stupid, no way that would happen like that in the real world". Kirk fucked around harder than anyone else and found out. He hung the sword of Damocles above his head, then dared people to cut the horse hair.