AdamT
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No, we perfectly understand how our tax system distorts and screws up our healthcare market. That's why conservatives have been proposing to end that disparity and equalize the tax treatment of individuals and employers who purchase health insurance. You may recall that that was part of the Republican platform in 2008 and Barack Obama castigated Republicans as attacking employer-provided health insurance?
There is no good reason why you should be tied to a job you hate because you fear losing your health insurance. It is a travesty that we have allowed an unintended consequence of wage controls from the 1940's to so mangle our healthcare market and make the system needlessly expensive and difficult for everyone.
I certainly remember what old man McCain was proposing during the election, and it wasn't a bad proposal, but I doubt very much he would have pursued it if he'd won. Republicans had no interest in reforming health care. Sort of like when the proposed Obamacare as a counterpoint to Hillarycare. Remember that?
Fortunately with ACA employees are no longer stuck in a job because of health insurance. Now they can't be turned down for preexisting conditions if there's a gap in coverage and they can buy affordable insurance on an exchange. Not the best system, but a major improvement over what we've had.