Why would I take medical advice from my insurance company?

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5. They want to give the appearance of bringing 'value' to your health care.

I get a bunch of emails from my health insurance company with health tips, etc. I think they really don't want people to wake up and realize that health insurance companies actually provide no value to our health care at all. All they do is push paper around and cost money. I'm still covered by my job, but my wife was laid-off and lost her health insurance. I work for a very small company and they won't cover her insurance too. We tried the exchanges and the best deal we could get was going to cost about $500 a month. We only lasted about 6 months paying that last year before we simply couldn't afford it anymore. I realize that the affordable care act has helped a lot of people, but it hurt us. I think we would be much better off with single payer.