Employer-Sponsored Insurance Rips People's Insurance Away
Employer-Sponsored Insurance Rips People's Insurance Away
With Obamacare repeal efforts now behind us, the discourse will soon turn towards the single-payer question. In anticipation of that turn, I want to get out ahead of one of the most backwards arguments commonly relied upon by liberal critics of the US single-payer movement. The argument is this: moving to a single-payer system would be hugely disruptive to those with employer-sponsored insurance because it would take away their insurance and replace it with a public alternative.
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The reason this argument is backwards is because it is the system of employer-sponsored insurance that takes away people’s employer-sponsored insurance. Workers do not stick with the same employer for their entire life, but instead move between employers fairly frequently. Indeed, in 2016, there were around 60 million total job separations in the US.