[lisarea]

Oh, sorry, Garnet. I missed your post somehow.

But yeah, like godfry says, it isn't uncommon for people to keep or even get jobs in the first place just for the health insurance. As bad as many group policies are, they're better than private insurance, which is little more than a polite fiction people use as a placeholder to prove they had continuous coverage. In the industries I've worked in, a lot of people are prevented from freelancing or starting their own businesses primarily or solely because they wouldn't be able to get even remotely useful health insurance on their own.

And any kind of universal or near universal healthcare coverage plan would effectively eliminate the option for businesses to cut back or eliminate those costs, as your employer and many others are doing now.