>>Unfortunately, in the US, we have a stupid system where payment for health care is tied to employment.
Yes. So now there is a Gordian knot: because we must keep government out of healthcare, now we need government to force people to undertake secular governance functions against their deeply-held convictions. Of course it's OK because we aren't talking about somebody important like smokers, it's only the Micks. This time.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
