How to Make US Health Care More Equitable and Less Costly: Begin by Replacing Employment-Based Insurance

Among the most important domestic policy problems in the US is the high cost of health care, which is estimated at $10 000 per person per year and is at least 50% more than the cost in any other country. The annual US total health care spending of more than $3.3 trillion dwarfs spending on other critical services such as national defense ($867 billion) and education ($1.1 trillion).