Very good point. For all its flaws, one advantage of the Canadian system is that its burden on employers is very low. It’s a single-payer system financed mainly by a national sales tax, so the employer doesn’t have a huge overhead burden associated with it.
Yep, I’ve been saying for years that we need to figure out how to decouple health insurance from employment.
Health insurance was tied to employment as a workaround against wage controls.