NOTE TO CATHOLICS, FEMINAZIS, MODERATES, STATISTS, AND LIBERALS

IF HEALTHCARE INSURANCE WASN'T TIED TO YOUR JOB AND TO EMPLOYERS - BUT WAS PERSONAL - THAN THERE WOULD'NT BE ANY NEED FOR CONTROVERSIAL MANDATES, LIKE OBAMACARE'S CONTRACEPTIVE MANDATE.

EVERYONE WOULD HAVE THEIR OWN PLAN - THE ONE THEY SHOPPED FOR AND LIKED - AND COULD TAKE WITH THEM FROM JOB TO JOB.

AND REMEMBER:

THE IDEA THAT YOU GET HEALTH INSURANCE FROM YOUR EMPLOYER WAS AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY DURING WW2, WHEN EMPLOYERS NEEDED THIS TAX BREAK TO BE ABLE TO OFFER PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES ADDED BENEFITS.

Employers, seeking a way to provide workers with competitive salaries without violating the law, began offering health benefits. On October 26, 1943, the IRS legitimized the practice, ruling that health benefits would remain tax free. 

As a result, it has historically made sense for firms to offer health benefits — and lots of them. 

THE BEST REAL HEALTHCARE INSURANCE REFORM WE COULD MAKE WOULD BE TO ELIMINATE EMPLOYER GROUPS AND MAKE HEALTH INSURANCE ONLY AVAILABLE TO EVERYONE AS INDIVIDUALS.

THEY'D BE COMPLETELY PORTABLE AND GO WITH YOU FROM JOB TO JOB - LIKE YOUR CAR INSURANCE AND HOME INSURANCE WHICH YOU BUY INDIVIDUALLY.

EMPLOYER BASED GROUP PLANS ARE TOTAL BULLSHIT AND THE ROOT CAUSE OF MANY OF OUR INSURANCE PROBLEMS.

MAYBE IT MADE SENSE IN THE OLD DAYS WHEN YOU WORKED FOR ONE COMPANY YOU WHOLE LIFE, BUT NOT ANYMORE.