> Your [large] employer benefits from the system and wants it to stay. > > Edit: as others have pointed out, it is the large companies who benefit at the expens

> Your [large] employer benefits from the system and wants it to stay. > > Edit: as others have pointed out, it is the large companies who benefit at the expense of small companies and employees. This is completely wrong. The amount of money that employers have to pay in order to subsidize public insurance (which is the literal reason that prices are not transparent) is orders of magnitude more than what they can quantifiably get from you working that extra summer, or what have you.