In the US, health care is generally paid for through companies, and these companies purchase plans which cover everything from minor to catastrophic. This is due primarily to the fact that companies receive tax credits from the federal government for such insurance. If I spend $10,000 on an employee's health plan, that's $10,000 in untaxed…
On Health Care And The Relative Merits Of Payment Options
Pat and I have had a little bit of an e-mail back-and-forth regarding the sundry forms of provision of health care, and I decided to make a post out of it. He, as a supporter of a single-payer system in which the government is the single payer, points out the people who can't get insurance…