Tax employer-provided health benefits. This would increase my health care costs, and probably yours too. But it would eliminate the existing disconnect between

Tax employer-provided health benefits. This would increase my health care costs, and probably yours too. But it would eliminate the existing disconnect between costs and payers, which would reign in costs. See chart 1 at http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13899647&source=hptextfeature http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13899647&... (http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif http://media.economist.com/images/20090627/CBB677.gif). Look at the private vs out-of-pocket gap between the US and Switzerland (or anywhere else, but Switzerland is #2). How do you think taxing employer-provided health benefits would affect that gap?