I think a major contributing factor to this is American reliance on employers for healthcare. It’s a lot easier to quit and seek better working conditions elsewhere if you know major medical expenses won’t ruin you in the interim - this is about 10x as true in America due to the corruption and resulting additional costs endemic to the system.
If America manages to somehow implement single payer, I believe the potency of this ideological weapon would diminish drastically.
I changed jobs recently from one with "good" employer healthcare to one with "good+" employer healthcare. I was in a position to arrange it so that I would not only have no lapse in coverage, I would be double covered for a 2 week period. in fact, both insurance companies are under the same aegis / brand and honor each other's network agreements. I researched this all methodically.
even with every advantage in the world, the transition has been a shit show with emails, phone calls, waiting, more phone calls, etc just to keep my extremely common, regular ass not-fun medication coming. not to mention, I still have to initiate healthcare with a completely new PCP anyway and delay my checkup by 2 months because of it, and NONE of this was communicated to me despite me telling everyone a month in advance.
100% people are locked into shit by the wealthcare system making any minor changes into total shit shows.
I think a major contributing factor to this is American reliance on employers for healthcare. It’s a lot easier to quit and seek better working conditions elsewhere if you know major medical expenses won’t ruin you in the interim - this is about 10x as true in America due to the corruption and resulting additional costs endemic to the system.
If America manages to somehow implement single payer, I believe the potency of this ideological weapon would diminish drastically.
I changed jobs recently from one with "good" employer healthcare to one with "good+" employer healthcare. I was in a position to arrange it so that I would not only have no lapse in coverage, I would be double covered for a 2 week period. in fact, both insurance companies are under the same aegis / brand and honor each other's network agreements. I researched this all methodically.
even with every advantage in the world, the transition has been a shit show with emails, phone calls, waiting, more phone calls, etc just to keep my extremely common, regular ass not-fun medication coming. not to mention, I still have to initiate healthcare with a completely new PCP anyway and delay my checkup by 2 months because of it, and NONE of this was communicated to me despite me telling everyone a month in advance.
100% people are locked into shit by the wealthcare system making any minor changes into total shit shows.