Will Obamacare succeed where term limits failed?

[Xiahou]

The closest to a market-based healthcare system in an industrialized nation (besides us, with our Reagan-enacted jackalope crony-capitalist/socialist hybrid) would be ... wait for it ... Switzerland.

Swiss citizens buy insurance for themselves; there are no employer-sponsored or government-run insurance programs. Hence, insurance prices are transparent to the beneficiary.

Boom. Right there is the answer. Ever since FDR-era wage controls (that forced employers to add insurance coverage to their compensation packages since they couldn't raise wages), our insurance system has been spiraling out of control. Any serious healthcare reform has to break the attachment of work and insurance.

The best insurance I ever had was when I was out of work and forced to get private insurance. I asked if I could keep it when I got my next job- but they were legally unable to offer it to someone who had insurance offered to them at work. That's moronic.

As I read it, the Swiss system is basically Obamacare, had it been written by people who were reasonably intelligent... instead of by Democrats.