<story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I don&apos;t even need public healthcare. I just want something that does away with the current employer-sponsored system. We should make it easier, not harder, for people to move between jobs, take gaps to start companies or get new training, etc. We shouldn&apos;t be discouraging younger workers from getting preventative care so they can stay healthy and keep contributing to the economy.</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let&apos;s just model our system after say, Canada&apos;s, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mrbird</author><text>David Goldhill wrote an excellent piece in The Atlantic a few years ago on this topic. The fix is quite simple, but nearly impossible to implement: Stop using insurance for health care, and buy actual insurance (you know, for catastrophes).&lt;p&gt;How often do you use your car insurance? Fire insurance? That&apos;s because insurance is designed to never be used, by most people. Health insurance has been unfortunately recast into comprehensive health &lt;i&gt;care&lt;/i&gt;, with disastrous results. But the system is very entrenched now.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-american-health-care-killed-my-father/307617/?single_page=true&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013</title><url>http://blog.simplyinsured.com/what-startups-need-to-know-about-health-insurance-in-2013/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>I don&apos;t even need public healthcare. I just want something that does away with the current employer-sponsored system. We should make it easier, not harder, for people to move between jobs, take gaps to start companies or get new training, etc. We shouldn&apos;t be discouraging younger workers from getting preventative care so they can stay healthy and keep contributing to the economy.</text></item><item><author>kzahel</author><text>Everything I read about healthcare recently just reinforces the notion that we need public health care. Let&apos;s just model our system after say, Canada&apos;s, and call it done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>yaks_hairbrush</author><text>Absolutely, yes!  I was and still am upset with PPACA because it reinforces the horrid employer-provided care model.</text></comment>