Can't upvote this enough. On NPR an economist said that one thing that makes the US economy different (in a good way) from the EU economy is the extreme mobili

Can't upvote this enough. On NPR an economist said that one thing that makes the US economy different (in a good way) from the EU economy is the extreme mobility of our workforce - that when times are tough, a reasonable portion of US people can and will pack up and move to a state where they can find jobs. If that is true, conversely isn't the effect of having health insurance so tightly coupled to employment equally detrimental? I mean it just blows my mind that we tie employment and healthcare together.