If the businesses aren't paying the extra load, individuals will be. By my math, the health payroll tax would have to be increased by a factor of about ten. Good luck winning votes on that.
I've got a better idea.
Encourage competition and flexibility in insurance plans. Encourage creative solutions, like private pooling.
Kill most of the idiot government mandates and restrictions.
Change the tax rules to equalize employer-provided and individual insurance policies.
Make real costs transparent to the patient, and work to minimize the price bloat caused by third party responsiblity (see also college tuition)
The goal is to bring health insurance into the same place every other kind of insurance is: you own your own policies, selected from a large group of competing providers for your personal needs, and they go where you go.
Not more centralization, but less.
Even Canada's program is less centralized than what liberals in this country want.
But of course there's no political power to be had in this solution.
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Individual citizens? Do they know that yet?
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