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I'm unclear on how this would help. I know lots of people who have worked at big tech companies, and the concern about health insurance is not top of mind for any of them.

The young ones don't worry about it much because they are low risk, so even if they lost their job for a while, they wouldn't care.

The older ones typically have spouses that work, so they could get insurance through the other company's insurance.

And all of them make boatloads of money, so having to pay for health insurance on their own during a period of unemployment (after the transitional COBRA plan ran out) is not a huge concern.

It seems like this would be much more of a problem for people working in other, less highly-paid industries. But it's a bit of a misplaced concern in a thread about the ideal tech job. Getting rid of all perks would nuke tons of benefits that Googlers and others enjoy. Do you think that Google would make it up in salary if they got rid of the free lunches, laundry service, etc.?