[nascarnation]

U.S. companies would be much more competitive if all of them quit providing health insurance to employees. Governments and employers should get out of the business of providing health insurance or health care.

I agree 100%.

The addition of health insurance as an employee benefit was done during WW2 as a way to circumvent wage controls.

Anything that divorces the patient from costs is guaranteed to drive up prices.

[Gordon Pym]

Anything that divorces the patient from costs is guaranteed to drive up prices.

you mean like mandatory insurance pushes demand to maximum while demand stays the same and yet they sell it as a means to reduce the price?