Jim, do you remember how this all STARTED?
It started when the Federal Government put salary caps years ago (I think it was post WWII) on those very employers of thousands, so they had to come up with other ways to be competitive employers. They added HEALTH INSURANCE to the perks they offered employees because the government prohibited them from offering higher salaries.
Eventually, the "perk" became an expected part of employment, and ultimately it became what it is now -- expected and required.
So if you're going to talk about having an "intimate knowledge of the health care system," you really ought to understand that it was GOVERNMENT that manipulated employers into providing something they really didn't need or want to provide -- health insurance. It SHOULD be in the hands of the individual -- employers should have ZERO to do with it. It was ONLY government that changed it.
Doesn’t have anything to do with it.
Fact is that most people have no concept of health insurance or its’ cost. The fact that Trump is a CEO of a private institution makes him more qualified on the ins and outs of health insurance than virtually every member of Congress and every Elected or appointed official in government is indisputable.
What you have done is deflect from the issue.
Of course removing people from having their health insurance as an employer benefit is beneficial. That being said, at this point it is not