Health Care At Whole Foods Indicates That Less Government, More Individualism, Works
A great video from Reason juxtaposing the satisfied reality of Whole Foods workers and their health care plans with Big Labor agitators who want to make everyone dependent on the government.
What the Whole Foods employees have, essentially, is a health savings account. It’s a tax-sheltered account they contribute to coupled with a high-deductible insurance plan that costs a lot less than a more common comprehensive plan. This not only costs less over all, and allows them to better control their health care expenses, but it also allows them to build up significant amounts of money in their health care accounts which they can use for number of things not normally covered by a lot of health care plans. Like vision care. Dental care. Things like that.
And any American can get these, though with the government still subsidizing employer-based health care plans by allowing premiums to be deducted from paychecks pre-tax there’s little incentive for Americans to get them or even for insurers to issue them.
But emphasizing that sort of self-insurance would not only introduce market forces into the health care industry that would help to control spiraling health care costs it would also be a solution that makes us more independent. As opposed to more dependent on the government.
Which is a good thing, unless you’re the sort of person who enjoys being in thrall to duplicitous politicians and cantankerous bureaucrats. Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics
