GOVEROTRAGEOUS: “Health Insurance” has been screwed up since the World War II wage and price controls

Saturday, April 25, 2026

FROM AN EMAIL BY:

Tom Woods (HappyEarner.com) 
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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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RANT: Obamacare should be rolled back

Sunday, November 16, 2014

“Stupid.”

That’s what the architect of ObamaCare called you, the American voter.

He said they wrote the law specifically to confuse voters, to conceal what the law was about.

But now ObamaCare is going to face a day of reckoning.

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Argh! “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else

But, I think we should thank these bozos for getting “health insurance” disconnected from “employment”.

Like “car insurance”, it should have ZERO connection to your employer.

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All due to the wage and price controls of WW2.

Aggravated by the Crony Capitalist tax code that allows business to deduct “health insurance expense” but employees can not!

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I hope that the R’s will correct this aspect.

If I was an R, I’d be passing bills like a machine gun. Then BHO44 can veto or sign. “We, The Sheeple” can make judgments from there.

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POLITICAL: Separate Health Insurance from employment

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

On a slightly different note, while I think Obamacare is a giant FAIL on so many points, I do think that it demonstrates the need to end associating medical insurance with one’s employment.

Car Insurance should be the model. You don’t lose your car insurance if you change jobs.

Let WalMart, Credit Unions, Fraternal Organizations sell Group Medical Insurance.

Just like Life Insurance!

Did you know that the Knights of Columbus invented Life Insurance for the poor working men. And, it took off like wildfire. My maternal great grandmother, a Protestant, bought in for her brothers by claiming they were Catholic. Until Met Life came along with a better rate. (Laugh!)

Obamacare may have given us lemons, but we can make lemonade out of it.

Then on to “pension reform”.

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POLITICAL: WW2 wage and price controls cause today’s problems

Monday, July 7, 2014

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2014/07/time-to-cut-employers-out-of-healthcare.html

Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Time to cut employers out of the healthcare loop
Daniel Froomkin asks one of the right questions in the wake of yesterday’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case: “Why should employers have anything to do with people’s health insurance anyway?”

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I, for once, agree.

I would say why should Gooferment or its corporations be in charge of “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else?

Look at “life insurance”. “Cheap”, easily available, and virtually unregulated.

Even “car insurance” is relatively the same when compared to “health insurance”.

When you think about it, the current “system” comes from the WW2 wage and price controls. There, the Gooferment, created the problem and “they” keep “rescuing” us from the problem they created.

Could we at least consider an alternative?

If the problem was “uninsured”, (which I dispute), then could “we” NOT bought every uninsured person a policy and avoided the financial and systematic débâcle that was Obamacare?

I think that you liberals think that only the Gooferment can solve “problems”. When in actuality, it causes the problem it seek to proclaim it’s solving.

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