As others have said, it's a problem for anyone who wants to do work outside of the "middle class employment cocoon".
I'm self employed, and even if I go back to working for a larger company, I would prefer to continue to keep my private insurance. I have private homeowner's insurance. I have private car insurance. I have private life insurance. Why oh why do we demand/insist that employers provide health care, to the detriment of market forces favoring individual purchasing?
Conservatives in this country should be in an uproar that the 'free market' isn't allowed to run its course because of the combined interference of big business, big labor and big govt over the past several decades, but they're not.
> Conservatives in this country should be in an uproar that the 'free market' isn't allowed to run its course
Because unlike cars and homes you only have one life. If you let a profit seeking entity control and dictate what happens to your health, you might not have a chance to go back fix the problem by choosing a better one. You could be dead.
There was just recently a story on Reddit about someone who's relative a was killed by a driver and his dead relative' insurance company effectively provided council for the defendant. That's the kind of stuff you'd be dealing with. You health insurance company would be interested in killing you promptly as soon as you develop a chronic or expensive condition. And they'd all want to do it. All 1 of them after they merge into a giant conglomerate (since you know can't be messing with the free market and stuff, there will be nobody protecting against monopolies).
I'm self employed, and even if I go back to working for a larger company, I would prefer to continue to keep my private insurance. I have private homeowner's insurance. I have private car insurance. I have private life insurance. Why oh why do we demand/insist that employers provide health care, to the detriment of market forces favoring individual purchasing?
Conservatives in this country should be in an uproar that the 'free market' isn't allowed to run its course because of the combined interference of big business, big labor and big govt over the past several decades, but they're not.