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I think decoupling health insurance from one’s employer could greatly change the entire healthcare industry. It would go a very long way to reduce cost obfuscation, among many other things. So many people think their health insurance costs $30 a month because that’s their “contribution”.

Unfortunately it will never happen, as it’s insanely politically unviable as almost no one wants that to happen. It’s the ultimate free market approach, but then people would have to pay for something they “get for free”. And once they realized how insane the system is, and how much everything actually costs, you might see knock on effects from that. Some bad, some good. It would be an experiment for sure.

Single payer is more realistic, even if it doesn’t do much to affect many of the underlying issues.