“Derb—Yes, free flow of labor and capital are both important. … But the
major problem we have in the US is that there is no free flow of labor
because health insurance is tied to the job. If health insurance were
sheared off from employment, so many people would strike out on their own,
establishing new businesses, and the economy would be rejuvenated.”
Tying health care to employment is an idea so dumb it takes the breath away.
It is one of those things that crept up on us under conditions of wartime
emergency, and that, if it had never happened and were proposed ab initio in
current society, would be hooted out of public discussion by everyone, left,
right, and center.