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Group health insurance is bad for America

Its the top reason health care costs are almost $4 trillion, approaching one-fifth the size of the economy.

By Rick Lindquist | Updated on February 03, 2015
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(Editor’s note: This blog has been republished here with permission from Zane Benefits. This is part three of an ongoing series. You can check out part one here and you can read the original, in its entirety, here.)

When you drive to work today look around at the people, cars, and buildings you pass by. Between one-sixth and one-fifth of the people you pass on their way to work, representing 17.5 percent of our gross domestic product, work producing a product or service nobody really wants to buy—health care, or more accurately sickness care, since what most Americans call healthcare has very little to do with health.

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