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The Intertwining of Work and Healthcare.
Why the two should never, ever mix.
Out of all the developed nations in the world, it’s difficult to argue against the idea that the healthcare system in the United States is among the most flawed, even brutal. With healthcare and the notion of implementing a Medicare for All system taking center stage in this 2020 primary season among Democrats, more of the centrist, moderate candidates have been scrambling to come up with reasons not to put such a system in place.
After hurling a seemingly endless barrage of right wing talking points at the wall in search of some that stick, one that those against Medicare for All seem to have found effective is the idea that people like the private health insurance offered by their employer. As ridiculous as that is, at the very least it has prompted people all across the country to stop and consider what it has been like for them to live within the confines of a system where they are dependent upon an employer for their health insurance.
The reality is that if we lived in a just, moral world healthcare and work would never mix, and for a variety of reasons.
Frankly, the very concept of tying our health insurance to our employer is yet another cruel residual effect of a capitalist system that has entrenched itself so deeply in to nearly…
