Just because health care is untethered from your employment status does not mean it is single payer or fully nationalized. See this plan for example: https://e

Just because health care is untethered from your employment status does not mean it is single payer or fully nationalized. See this plan for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act It would transition away from employer-provided health insurance, to employer-subsidized insurance, having instead individuals choose their health care plan from state-approved private insurers. It sought to make the cost of health insurance more transparent to consumers, with the expectation being that this would increase market pressures to drive health insurance costs down.