By now, costs of employer-provided health insurance are often $10,000 per employee-year, or even $15,000 or more. Most of this cost is usually “invisible” to the employee. Can you imagine the shrieks and consternation in America if these costs were broken out in the paycheck-stub and called a “tax”?
In another thread, self-identified right-wingers identified the problem with UHC as “free-loaders”:
That private-insured people have exactly the same propensity (or lack of propensity) to “freeload” as public-insured people do, seems to be beyond the grasp of right-wingers. Or, more likely, it really is a matter of morality: People without money don’t deserve the things money can buy.