Why should insurance be linked to employment? If I leave a job of work, my body is the same body that will now have to shift insurance systems to Cobra and then to my next employer's program, which I will have to relearn. Why not have the same insurance system to look after my body regardless of whom it works for?

For reasons unfathomable to me, my government leaders have chosen to ignore this problem which concerns tens of millions of people right now and concentrate on medicare finances, which is a 'problem' in name only, and where the prospects are so far in the future it will have to be re-fixed no matter what. It's the biggest red herring in politics of recent times (along with missile defense systems which cannot be made to work).