re: #81 Renaissance_Man

I have nothing but the greatest sympathies for you both.

I would, however, like to add that the American notion of making your health care dependent on your employer, of all people, is nothing short of insanity. It makes you and millions of people like you dependent on a master not only for a living wage, but for actually living. It also is a huge barrier to employment - I can’t even imagine how many more people would be employed without that as a barrier. It’s a ridiculous convention.

For a country so big on freedom, Americans as a whole are remarkably comfortable with bonded servitude.

True. I argued for years - even prior to the Obamacare/ACA stuff - that the most significant thing we could do to have a positive impact on entrepreneurship of small businesses would be a sound national health care system. The average cost of healthcare for a family of four in the US is larger than the federal poverty line for that family of four.

What we got will help, some, but it’s not enough.