[sionnsar]

"If you want it, you have to buy it yourself."
That's the way it always should have been. I think around WWII people started getting covered through their employer as a sort of "wage increase" and it was a mistake that led us to where we are today.

Quite correct. It was a way around wartime wage controls.

[McGavin999]

I thought it was during Nixon’s wage freeze. I can tell you this, when I was 17 my first job was to assist in doing the payroll at a small manufacturing company. Single insurance was $.97 a week and family coverage was $2.54.