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Edit to add before I have to explain it, too: The cost of employer provided healthcare is written into the bottom line. E.g., when you buy a car, the cost of that company's healthcare per worker is represented in the price of that car. So you pay your HC premium and a portion of every employer provided HC plan. Not to mention, you also pay the cost of the uninsured through state, local and property taxes when they hit the ER.



Plus you have to figure in deductibles and what each plan covers.

Plus medicare recipients tend to be sicker than those with privately held plans, adding to cost.

Plus private cost includes profit, public does not.