I believe in health care reform with a public option. That makes me a Nazi, right?

I believe in single-payer public healthcare, which I'm pretty sure makes me Hitler.

(My current job search would be going so much better if it weren't tied to my health insurance. Freelance opportunities are popping up everywhere, and I can't afford to take any of them.)

I believe in health care reform with a public option. That makes me a Nazi, right?

A socialist Nazi.

So, anyway, Tom and I went out on the town last night to celebrate me finishing my comps and him winning first prize (and $100!) for a Woot photoshop competition. It was fun- we went out to this place for dinner and I asked the bartender if he knew any good cocktails that had Fernet as an ingredient.

Et, voila!

It was really tasty, and I may have found myself a new cocktail.

We had a really fun time- after dinner, we went to another bar and hung out with some friends for an hour and then went to ANOTHER bar, ostensibly to drop off growlers but we ended up staying for a beer. It was like Date Night! Fun.

I actually believe in single-payer care, but I wasn't sure where that would put me in the spectrum of odious comparisons.

The evils of our current system become much more obvious if you're freelancing and/or have a pre-existing condition. The largely accidental linkage of health insurance to employer has so warped our current system. One of the reasons I just want to point and laugh at people who want the "free market" to govern health care is that our system cannot properly operate as a free market, because most users of the service are not the customers. Their employers are the customers.

The evils of our current system become much more obvious if you're freelancing and/or have a pre-existing condition

And if you're female, there's very little that doesn't count as a pre-existing condition.

I totally believe in single payer. Also, that Americans are just *weird* about some things.

well, duh. Especially anyone who finds any freedom in the HMO network thing. Because that's like, Bizarro World.

I got up at 5 to drive DH to the airport. He is flitting off to Atlanta to eat good food and drive Kias. I am not tired now, but, hoo boy, I expect to be surly and yawning by 3. ION, I made the BEST dinner last night! Easy, too. It was this: [link] I used thighs and doubled the garlic, because we ALWAYS double the garlic at our house. It was Yum and I have leftovers for the next two days.

The largely accidental linkage of health insurance to employer has so warped our current system.

Yeah, I'd really like to see that unlinked. It would help make the labor market more fluid and would make things easier for entrepreneurs. That's part of the problem I generally have with Democratic plans.

The Republican plan of refundable tax credits just seems like a massive government subsidy of private insurance companies. Maybe it would be better separating that linkage, though it wouldn't do anything to lower costs. It also still screws higher risk folks.

I think single-payer or a French public/private system would be better than either, but I'm not sure that would addresses slowing down costs much either. Though putting everyone in a single risk pool with a non-profit setup would have to be more efficient that the current way things work.