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Your an employee with cancer, and your for profit insurance still deny's your insurance, you quickly run out of paid and unpaid leave through the FMLA and your still up shit creek with cancer. The employee designation doesn't seem much better as far as I know.

The real problem are laws that try to offload welfare to employers when it should be paid through a govt. tax system.

You have to take whatever IC income you get and divide it by 1.4 to get the equivalent pay as an employee after benefits.

How is it like for people with no savings on medicaid or mediCAL?

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Being an employee in the US can, in some cases, help preserve both your job and your employer-facilitated health insurance while you're sick. The company needs to have 50 or more employees for it to apply, IIRC, and you need to have worked there for at least a year. There are slightly more generous laws in some states. It's quite close to nothing, but still slightly better than nothing.

I definitely agree that employment (or lack thereof) should have nothing to do with health care.