>The Agenda has often wondered if decoupling health insurance from employment might encourage entrepreneurship. That is from the article. It's a stupid commen

>The Agenda has often wondered if decoupling health insurance from employment might encourage entrepreneurship. That is from the article. It's a stupid comment. Of course it will encourage entrepreneurship - no other outcome would make sense. Why is health insurance coupled to employment anyway? All you need to do is reform the health insurance market so that it is individual based, rather than company based - your employer does not pay for auto, home or life insurance, so why health? To me, as an outsider looking in, it seems like collusion between big companies to make it harder for small companies to compete for staff. As a non-US resident, I just buy my health insurance whether I'm working, not working, or doing whatever. If I got a job with bigcorp limited, they might offer it as part of a package, or maybe get a slightly better rate due to group rates, but it's not a case where I have to be employed in order to get insurance.