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How Employers Get To Control Your Life
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You should read this column by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News' Will Bunch and talk about it on the air. No, really. It starts with the story of former Deadspin writer/editor Dan McQuade, who had to get married before October just to get on his fiancee's health insurance and not lose coverage after he quit with the rest of the staff (thanks, private equity), and then goes into a deep discussion of how American health care is tied to your job, leaving people a very bad choice when their jobs turn out to be bad: quit and lose insurance, or stay because you can't afford to lose your coverage. Or you like your job but the company's insurance plan sucks. Honestly, how can American health care be tied to your job, or, for that matter, your income? Yes, it's an argument for a government plan (Medicare for All or some other permutation), but, come on, how can you justify what we have now? (Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News)
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