You're contradicting yourself by claiming it's tied to employment and then saying you can buy it for a price. It's one or the other. Or you can claim the pric

You're contradicting yourself by claiming it's tied to employment and then saying you can buy it for a price. It's one or the other. Or you can claim the price makes it effectively tied to employment. I agree the cultural ties it has to employment ought to end, but that's a peculiarity of the american system, not a fundamental feature of a private healthcare system.