[oneoff786]

Isn’t this sort of guaranteed to fail? High earners already have great insurance from employers. There’s not likely to be a mechanism to get those benefits back as dollars like you would expect in a national scale steady state system.

[kmonsen]

The VOX in the weeds healthcare people looked at it some time ago, and most healthcare economists thinks it is not possible for states to do something here.

[buescher]

Somehow they have private insurance in Europe too. Germany has universal health care and you are well advised to get private insurance if you make enough that the state will allow you to buy it. The threshold is a salary of about $68K/year in US dollars.

[oneoff786]

That’s not what I’m saying. The norm is that a fairly substantial part of your comp in the US is healthcare provided by your employer. If this suddenly becomes worthless (or rather much less valuable because there’s a single payer system in parallel) but your salary stays the same while your taxes go up, you will lose out big time.

It could work just fine if everyone did it. But seems very hard to do just Ny.

[maxerickson]

The notional value of insurance isn't impossibly high and it would likely loosen up the job market if switching was not complicated by continuing coverage and the risk of not replacing a good benefit.

[tekknik]

Having used VA healthcare, what data do you have to show that the gov provided medical services will be a “good benefit”?

I have some medical issues now due to those wonderful Drs decisions.

[oneoff786]

Sure. But is that achievable over a short period when the experiment is New York only and you’re a large national company? Not convinced.