I feel like a broken record, as I’m always saying what you’re saying when people discuss health insurance. Most folks want to trash public health care under the

I feel like a broken record, as I’m always saying what you’re saying when people discuss health insurance. Most folks want to trash public health care under the quick quip of “that’s socialism” or trash “privatized health care” with the current employer-provided system as a proxy for “privatized health care”. People get so caught up defending “their side”, that they forget the objective is to get a better health care system. IMO, a huge number of the problems that exist with US health care (non-portability between jobs, people stuck with plans ill-suited to their needs, lack of access to affordable health care) could be easily addressed by a ban on employer-provided healthcare with a provision to ensure the costs are forwarded to the workers as monetary compensation. Workers can go choose a plan that works for them.