Self sufficiency is great as far as it goes. Not all are able to be self sufficient. Even those of you with perfectly great health insurance can be denied coverage at any time, even in the midst of cancer treatment. They system is seriously broken and it will only get worse. Time to take the obscene profits out of the equation and start using the money to provide healthcare to all.
And another thing...do you guys realize that American jobs are outsourced not only to countries with cheap labor. They also are offshored to other countries where the government provides health insurance to all residents. This is a cost of insurance the employers have to bear here, that they don't if they send jobs to other countries. But of course, neocon myopia can't see that point either.
Employers do not have to provide insurance at all. But insurance has little to do with it. Outsourcing is a result of a number of things. Those "obscene profits" go into the economy to stock holders. Reduce those and you have problems in the economy.