Sometimes we lose perspective in the health care debate, so maybe it would help to look at how other countries have addressed health care delivery and funding.
Although millions of Americans use some form of corrective lenses to see, when employers break out their vision plans as an ancillary benefit, the rates at which employees sign up for and use the plans drops dramatically.
There was a time in the United States when HMOs were the biggest thing in health care. They still are in Israel, a country thats been using HMOs as major care providers (and, later, the countrys primary care provider) since before the state was even created.