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> We need to get rid of employer-provided health care benefits, and focus on getting people to buy it directly themselves.

This. People are given these ridiculously expansive health care plans and most of the premium is picked up by their company or is deducted before they ever notice it. If people have to buy it themselves, they're going to choose higher deductible plans to get lower premiums. With higher deductible plans, they will want to see what their money is paying for and demand price transparency (which is sorely lacking in the US health care market). Allow companies to operate without stifling state interference and this will be a whole new market, one that actually responds to the forces of supply and demand (as opposed to the clusterfuck we deal with now).