Aside from providing quality affordable health care for everyone, the system should also be gentle on the elderly and others and shopping around for the best interstate deal on health care on the internet is not something people should have to do.

I happened (stumbled) upon an interview Charles Krauthammer did with Der Spiegel. About the healthcare problem in America, Krauthammer said:

I would make Americans pay half a percent tax on their health insurance and create a pool to socialize the cost of medical errors. That would save hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to insure the uninsured. And second, I would abolish the absurd prohibition against buying health insurance in another state — that reduces competition and keeps health insurance rates artificially high.

And

It is absolutely crazy that in America employees receive health insurance from their employers — and at the same time a tax break for this from the federal government. It’s a $250 billion a year loophole in the government’s budget. If you taxed healthcare benefits, you would have enough revenue for the government to give back to the individual to purchase their own insurance. If you did those two reforms alone, you would have the basis for affordable health insurance in America.

Not living in America, I haven’t followed the healthcare debate (it’s so , like, boring), hence I don’t know if what Krauthammer said is news or not.

Is what he said the solution?