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> f you can afford private care, and are lucky enough to have good insurance through your job Isn't that basically saying "lucky to be full-time salaried"? I

• BeetleB 8y ago
  >Isn't that basically saying "lucky to be full-time salaried"? I don't know anyone in such a position who has bad insurance. I do. A friend of mine had a cushy tech job in Chicago. He recently quit to start his own business. I asked him about health care. His employer provided insurance was quite bad (high premiums). He's paying only about a $100/mo more than when he had the job. And then there's the issue of what you mean by "bad insurance". I work in a top tech company which gives us multiple options for insurance. For most people, it works out alright, but for each option, you won't have much trouble finding some employee who thought he got shafted with a high bill (things like someone in the chain of care ended up being out of network even though he had done due diligence to ask all people involved).