Death, Healthcare and The Employer Albatross

I’ve been pretty quiet on the whole healthcare debate up until now. It’s a mess. It’s more than a mess, it’s a crazed storm of clucking and feather rustling, posturing and lobbying, advertising and cajoling, misinforming and undereducating. But while all this is going on in my former hometown of Washington, DC, people are dying.

Yes, I said people are dying, and I’m not saying it to be dramatic. It’s happening about once every fifteen seconds every single day in every way imaginable. (Yep, someone just died as you read that stat.)

Is this my employer’s fault? Is it even their responsibility to be in the middle of this mess in the first place? I say it is not. But of course I’ve already completed my homework assignments.

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