I wouldn't have nearly as many complaints about this mindset change if ones life (e.g. insurance) weren't still so deeply tied to who your current employer is.
I don't know what the best solution for the current healthcare clusterfuck in the US is, but I think disassociating health insurance from employer/employment is a great first step.
Improving coverage and acceptance by plans in the marketplace would be a good start. Multiple healthcare providers only accept plans from an employer or the state, not individual plans bought in the marketplace. Crazy that in a pro-business country, if you have your own business or you're self-employed, you can't have access to healthcare
The goal should be a single payer health care system.
I am not asking for like luxury spa five star treatment.
However, there definitely should be a
"free of cost at the point of service"
option that does not have any means testing
of any kind.
That should be the goal and once we have that,
it will not matter if you are self employed
or own a business.
We keep doing half measures
and pretend to be surprised when it doesn't work.
I don't know what the best solution for the current healthcare clusterfuck in the US is, but I think disassociating health insurance from employer/employment is a great first step.