Comment by 4ec0755f5522

I just read an article about quiet / dream jobs (park ranger etc.) In it, every single person has a side gig(s) or is otherwise making decisions on their careers based on medical coverage. Every one of them! One of the people says most people leave when they turn 26 because they can't stay on their parents' health insurance. What?!

  > And like other dream jobs I learned about, it’s not enough to survive on: During 
  > off-seasons, Krumbholz also works as a substitute teacher and an aquarium dolphin 
  > tank cleaner; since being on university health insurance would mean she’d constantly
  > lose it during the off-season, Krumbholz decided to stay on the state exchange
  > instead.

The idea that health care is tied to your employer, and your employment status, is so unacceptably broken. I've never heard of anything so broken in terms of the obvious social and economic harm a bad policy is creating. Having the freedom from health care costs is more freedom for more people than the "freedom" to not pay health insurance or taxes to cover it.