>However, I do not think that the cost should be born solely by employers. One of the great things about this country is the ability for anyone to start their own business and succeed at it. The cost of medical insurance for small businesses would be too prohibitive for small companies. I think it should be a shared expense: a percentage paid by employers and the remainder paid by individual taxes. The percentage paid by employers should also be stepped up or down based on net profit. The working would carry the unworking of course just as they do now but those in lower income brackets would be able to have affordable medical care.

You're a small business employer. You think about pay your worker 1000$. You will pay 200$ insurange. So you will pay him/her 800$. Nothing changed. If you make people free for pay insurange it would be lead to tragedies...