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# From Reddit's Today I Learned
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/33601/
- Published: 2014-08-11T20:06:52.000Z
- Updated: 2014-08-11T20:06:52.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

TIL "health insurance" was actually cooked up as a ploy by hospitals to fill empty beds. The real impetus to making insurance commonplace is when they made premiums tax-free if paid by employers. Before insurance the average person spent $5 per year on medical care.

[Link](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114045132&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

Get rid of insurance, or at least eliminate its tax-favored status, and the cost of health care would plummet.

But that, of course, wouldn't make the medical establishment happy, so it won't happen.