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Man, I'm embarrassed I needed this explained to me, but anchor is such a good description. Imagine what people could/would do if they didn't have to be bound to their employer by health insurance.
Right. So, if yall just quit buying in we will be rewarded with universal healthcare.
Some people will need to suffer. It’s just, by choice now or by force for way more later.
And yea, I put my money where my mouth is. I’ve been homeless before even getting one of these awful miserable jobs. I don’t work for anyone but myself.
This was my mind set in my early twenties and our collective society never aligned to actually change the system.
I had to finally get a corporate role and join the machine but I have good benefits. I feel defeated but I need the benefits.
If I didn't need health insurance, I would make all kinds of things in the shop for fun. Literally all day, working with my hands.
But I need insurance.
So I spend all day typing.
I think this is one of the big ones that a lot of people in the civilized world don't get. If I lose my job, right now, I lose access to my medications unless I wanna pay the $250/mo to buy them out of pocket. A simple doctor's visit to my NP is about $400 out of pocket assuming no blood draws or anything.
Medicaid exists, but it takes time to kick in, and now I also have to do, and provide proof I did, at least 80 hr/mo of acceptable (validity up to my state) work, community service, or volunteer work, ON TOP OF having to look for a job, in order to keep my Medicaid.
OMG, yes! I know people typically think of universal healthcare as a socialist policy, but I really think it is a capitalist one for this s very reason. How many innovations have we missed because someone needed to stay at a shitty job for the insurance?