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>I never understood why healthcare was tied to employment. Yes, it's a nice benefit, but it's not like your health needs change significantly if your job change
by marcinzm 7y ago
>I never understood why healthcare was tied to employment. Yes, it's a nice benefit, but it's not like your health needs change significantly if your job changes.
It's tied to employment because we have private health insurance and that doesn't really work without group plans. Employers are the most readily and widely accessible set of groups (unions are another for example).
- manigandham 7y agoEmployer as a group is completely arbitrary and can be redrawn by insurance underwriters to anything else (city, state, region, etc).
- marcinzm 7y agoInsurance underwriters can't force a city to all take insurance with their company. Which is what employer group plans do.
- manigandham 7y agoWe already had that on a federal level with ACA coverage penalties, now repealed but still enforced by California. I think it would be much more viable if we get rid of the employment requirements.