Please show me where my "Pie in the sky" proposal advocates anyone other than the private providers offering health insurance. I specifically make it clear that the private insurance carriers would continue to provide the policies, collect the premiums and pay the claims. The only people that would no longer have any involvement is the employer...a responsibility I suspect most would gladly give up. The whole idea of employer provided health insurance did not arise until WW II when it became a way to keep employees during a time when a manpower shortage made keeping workers of paramount importance. Why should your employer be involved in your health insurance any more than any other type of insurance. Good grief...you people are hopeless. No idea is ever of any worth unless it is offered by a rightwinger. The idea itself is not important...only where in the political spectrum it comes from.