One of the worst things America has done is tie healthcare to employment. Fight me if you want, but it's true.
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Yes! 💯
aug 21, 2025, 3:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I agree. It gives the employer a hold over you. Universal healthcare is better and cheaper and less ghoulish because the profit angle is removed.
aug 21, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 1 • view
It might have been the biggest failure of FDR. They should have just gone for broke during the War and nationalized healthcare to keep costs contained. When service members came home it would have been there for them to use. Employers could have gotten creative with PTO and other perks.
aug 21, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 1 • view
No fight. You are spot on.
aug 21, 2025, 4:28 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re 💯% correct. Tying healthcare to employment is ridiculous. Change jobs mid-year? You’re forced to start deductibles all over again even if your new employer uses the same insurance company. It’s a scam perpetrated by “Big Insurance “ to continue to fleece Americans.
aug 21, 2025, 2:39 pm • 32 2 • view
And there’s often a gap in coverage.
aug 21, 2025, 3:20 pm • 15 1 • view
I live in a small town, most jobs are part time unless you work at a prison or a government job. I have always had to string 3-5 jobs together and never had healthcare (it was offered but it costed more than I earn!) Luckily my husband had work insurance but we still paid $1200/m + deductibles
aug 21, 2025, 3:34 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s awful, we pay the highest prices on the planet for healthcare with some of the worst outcomes
aug 21, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
It's very true. You'd think we would have learned that in the pandemic when people were losing their jobs and their healthcare in a health crisis but there are still Democrats out here against universal healthcare
aug 21, 2025, 3:34 pm • 1 1 • view