Comments on: Health Care Impacts County’s Bottom Line http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/08/10/health-care-impacts-countys-bottom-line/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=health-care-impacts-countys-bottom-line it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Fred Zimmerman http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/08/10/health-care-impacts-countys-bottom-line/comment-page-1/#comment-50651 Fred Zimmerman Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:26:55 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=48304#comment-50651 It strikes me that the city might want to think about getting some reinsurance. The argument that “we’ve never had an employee exceed their lifetime limits” is, of course, a fallacy. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. All it takes is one employee or dependent with a heart-wrenching and extremely complex case.

]]> By: David http://annarborchronicle.com/2010/08/10/health-care-impacts-countys-bottom-line/comment-page-1/#comment-50640 David Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:15:22 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=48304#comment-50640 Free health care is pretty nice. I can remember that being the case in private industry, especially with the large companies. Private industry is trending towards an 80/20 system: the employeer pays 80% of the monthly premium and the employee pays 20% of the premium. A lot of private companies are already there.

Government subsidized health care will have head in this direction in order to remain affordable by the employeer and not be overly burdonsome to the taxpayer.

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