Reply #1: 13% increase for my company

[ramapo]

The increases are relentless, 13% this year. We're holding benefits and employee contributions at the same level and will absorb the increase as we've had to cut back benefits and increase employee share previously in order to maintain some level of affordibility.

Solving this problem would help on so many levels. This would reduce costs to companies, give peace-of-mind to us all, provide workers with freedom to change jobs or start businesses without being constrained by health insurance concerns.

Why we cannot go to a single-payer system that would at least suck the bureaucracy out the system defies common sense.