[Alberta's Child]

The government is involved because the voters want the government to be involved. It's a pattern that goes back to the establishment of the first modern socialist state, when the Prussian states were unified in the 1870s under Otto von Bismarck. The people elect leaders who impose all kinds of idiocy on employers, and the employers lobby bribe government officials to push this idiocy right back on the people.

The end result of all this is that employers will ultimately stop providing health insurance to their employees. That's exactly how it should be. Companies never really "decided for themselves" whether or not to offer health insurance to their employees. They were given enormous tax incentives to do it, and now the game has changed. It's really that simple.

[Lets Roll NOW]

They were not given tax incentives to offer health insurance to employees.

During WWII the government installed wage controls (good old FDR) and companies could not attract new workers. So they started offering health insurance which wasn’t frozen by government. It was government causing the problem in the first place.