FROM AN EMAIL BY:
Tom Woods (HappyEarner.com)
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-04-22>>
RE: I have a series of eBooks called “Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About….”
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The first title in my series was Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About Health Care — appropriate, since everybody knows there’s something wrong with the system, but few understand where the blame really belongs.
The problem is not a lack of government involvement: wherever government involvement is least felt — direct primary care practices, for example, or areas like LASIK or cosmetic surgery — the system works by far the best.
The “insurance” part of the system is particularly screwed up — it came into existence thanks to World War II wage and price controls, and it’s subject to crazy restrictions and mandates.
In our screwed-up society people talk a lot about creating “parallel institutions” — and then they do nothing.
CrowdHealth actually created a parallel institution. It’s an alternative to health insurance, and it operates in parallel to the insane system everyone else is trapped in.
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I’ve blogged about this before. I think many times. It came to the forefront in my “attention space” when I had to get “health insurance” for my minor child. What a fúçĸĭṅğ disaster! And, I don’t use that word lightly.
I had two experts, and my insurance carrier that couldn’t make heads or tails out of my problem.
In trying to solve it, I had the “fun” of calling my insurance carrier and being greeted with a “dead end” message (basically tummy you to buzz off) “call back during normal business hours” on a Tuesday at noon EDST. Argh!
Imagine if your life insurance or car insurance was tied to your employment.
Argh!
I’m writing my representatives to disconnect “insurance” from “employment” by removing the business tax deduction for “insurance” ASAP!
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