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I have absolutely fantastic insurance through my employer as part of my compensation package. What you want to do is cut my income. Why should I be happy with that?

It goes hand in hand with the tort reform and state lines stuff. If insurance is purchased by private citizens for their own use, it will be cheaper because the free market will be allowed to work.

Also, your “fantastic” health insurance is in leu of higher pay. When I was a COBOL contractor in the late 90’s, I had two income choices: $55 an hour, straight wage, or $50 an hour with company health care insurance. I chose the former and purchased major medical insurance dirt cheap.

Where I work now, the employees make far less money than me but have great benefits. Meanwhile, my higher pay would allow me to enjoy their same benefits and still pocket more money.

i.e. if health insurance is no longer offered by employers, they would have to find other ways to bring qualified people in. One of those would be higher wages, which they could afford to pay since they were not buying health insurance.

It goes hand in hand with the tort reform and state lines stuff. If insurance is purchased by private citizens for their own use, it will be cheaper because the free market will be allowed to work.

Nonsense. My company covers 80% of the cost for my insurance. There is no way I could afford to replace it at what it is costing me.

Again nonsense. If no companies are allowed to offer healthcare insurance to their employees then where is the incentive for qualified people to leave, salaries being equal? My employer could easily keep my salary where it's at, say "Sorry for that healthcare thing but blame the government and not us", and I'm still worse off.