# What Broke American Health Care? 

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/what-broke-american-health-care>

**By** Michael F. Cannon, Trevor Burrus

**Published:** May 27, 2022

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Why does your employer pay for your health coverage?

## SUMMARY:

Michael Cannon, author of a brand new study explains why a majority of US residents get insurance via their employers, when almost nowhere else in the world does this. Plus; what’s so wrong about the term “employer contributions?” And how is our current system not actually very indistinguishable from one with an individual mandate?

### FURTHER READING:

[_End the Tax Exclusion for Employer‐Sponsored Health Insurance_](https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/end-tax-exclusion-employer-sponsored-health-insurance-return-1-trillion-workers-who), by Michael F. Cannon