Well, if you really wanted to de-couple health insurance from employment, you'd have been better off voting for John McCain, whose health plan transformed the t

Well, if you really wanted to de-couple health insurance from employment, you'd have been better off voting for John McCain, whose health plan transformed the tax-advantaged status of employer health care into an individual tax credit available regardless of how your health care was purchased. Neither President Obama nor Sen. Baucus (the real author of what became "Obamacare") ever had that in mind: If you weren't going to get single-payer, there was no way you were going to cut government worker and blue collar labor unions away from the very cushy tax-advantaged plans they'd negotiated with their employers for current and retired members. They're already extremely upset about just the "Cadillac" tax.