> But ideas like this, and removing employer provided healthcare (e.g. everyone on an open health insurance exchange) are politically impossible in the US because no politician can get elected for "taking people's employer insurance and taking their discounts." Even if they're the right thing to do to simplify, reduce costs, align goals, and force insurers to compete again.

To be fair, the current president ran partly on a platform to end surprise billing and has asked congress to deliver legislation to this effect