Employer provided health care is already in the process of self-destructing. The push toward temp/part-time/consultant/contract/outsourced/etc jobs has resulted in a greater percentage of unisured every year.
I don't know that the ACA makes that any worse(or better, depending on your point of view), it just allows the people who are losing their group coverage to effectively buy coverage on the individual market (at least that is the intent)
I don't know that the ACA makes that any worse(or better, depending on your point of view), it just allows the people who are losing their group coverage to effectively buy coverage on the individual market (at least that is the intent)
IMO, the biggest advantage of the Swiss system over what we might get under the ACA is the ACA's continued linkage between employers and health care. Luckily, the ACA will destroy employer provided health care in the US (it is much cheaper for employers to simply drop coverage,pay the fine, and let the employees buy their own insurance with a big government subsidy. The much larger need for subsidies as this process continues is a reason the estimates for the cost of the ACA are far too low).