I'd love to decouple insurance form employment and I'd also love to do away with the private insurance system in the US. I've always had insurance and the experience has been as uniformly poor, regardless of provider, as it is continuous. Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents, not the system working.
Remove the private actors, the adversarial billing, the friction with providers. It, at its best, ranges from bad to outright awful.
(I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is owed, so why make folks prepare their own count and hope it matches?)
> the experience has been […] uniformly poor […] Any positive interactions and outcomes have felt like happy accidents
Which is to say, not uniformly poor?
> I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is owed
Sometimes! We would probably have to simplify the tax code first. Otherwise instead of spreading out the work of identifying income and tax credit eligibility amongst taxpayers and such upon them who are most proximal to this knowledge, we would have a centralized body need to know all of the things that you and I know about ourselves, such as how many kids we have, what kind of car we drive, whether we use solar power, whether we invest in crypto, whether we earned money from gifts or gambling or dividends or farming. Or we could just simplify the code, which I would like.
Everything after $5 million is taxed at 100%, no exceptions and used to fund education, healthcare and infrastructure (this would be before I go after the military budget with a hatchet).
Remove the private actors, the adversarial billing, the friction with providers. It, at its best, ranges from bad to outright awful.
(I'd also love to do away with tax prep — the government knows what is owed, so why make folks prepare their own count and hope it matches?)