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n48 .. seems to me that the tie of health insurance to employment creates problems. In your mind is that set-up a good one, or not?
I don't know, just a sense it isn't. Yep, it would take years and incremental stages to unravel. Is it a good set-up or not so good?

In Australia the universal scheme covers all and many many have private insurance for personal reasons. The conservative line in the US now that private insurers would go out of business with a universal is, on the Australian experience it seems to me, just a right wing furphy. It was an opposition debating point here before our universal, but has not proved to have been true, so it is obviously just to protect profits of the privates. How else can you read that in light of the Australian experience?

Aside, some analysts say that the involvement of private suppliers makes overall health costs in Australia more expensive.