Medicare at 50 Act reintroduced

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Robert M wrote:
Hi everyone,

I’ve never understood why health insurance is affiliated with employment nor have I understood why it is so regional. It just doesn’t make sense. Right now, I’m facing the prospect of losing employment subsidized health insurance and the non-employment options are so prohibitively expensive that I may as well go without it entirely. That’s insane.

If an insurance provider in a different part of the country offers a package that is well-rounded and affordable, it’s not an option for me. Why? I live in NY and they are elsewhere and, for whatever reasons, can’t offer insurance to me. Doesn’t make sense in my mind.

If health insurance could be bought across state lines, it would be a race to the bottom. Unless you are talking about a federal public option like Medicare.