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Universal health care helps startups.

• macintux 9y ago
  And helps people feel empowered to try to start their own company.
• seanmcdirmid 9y ago
  It would also help most big companies with spiraling health care costs, as well as lower paying jobs that can’t afford to provide benefits anyways.
• MrBuddyCasino 9y ago
  This is not certain. There is evidence that the safer people feel, the less willing they are to take risks. This is only paradoxical at first glance.
  • amclennon 9y ago
    On the other hand, taking potential health concerns out of the equation makes working for a startup inherently less risky. Before the ACA removed restrictions of pre-existing conditions, merely switching employers carried the risk of losing access to necessary healthcare.
• mac01021 9y ago
  You don't need universal or publicly funded healthcare for this. You just need it to become the norm for employers not to provide healthcare insurance. So for example (and I am NOT saying we should actually do this) if they would simply pass a law forbidding employers from including health coverage as part of their compensation packages, then everyone would be buying their own insurance (on exchanges or wherever) and startups along with every other business would be relieved of the burden.