Last month, Patti Hanks faced a wrenching decision: go back to her job, or lose her health insurance.Hanks, 62, recently had ovarian cancer treatment. With her immunity low, she was nervous about returning to her workplace, a store where she would be drawing up financing plans and taking cash payments
Last month, Patti Hanks faced a wrenching decision: go back to her job, or lose her health insurance.
Hanks’ experience illustrates how America’s employment-based health insurance system could become another liability in the country’s fight to contain the coronavirus. It could push workers at highest risk of serious illness from the coronavirus back to work the fastest. Those people need coverage to treat the preexisting conditions that make them vulnerable in the first place.
Story continuesWhen it comes to health care, the United States is rarely like the other countries that Levitt mentions. In Canada and Britain, workers get their health coverage through the government. In many European countries, like Germany and the Netherlands, workers buy subsidized coverage individually in tightly regulated markets.
But that new safety net has some holes. Fourteen states, including large ones like Florida and Texas, declined to participate in the health law’s Medicaid expansion. Workers who lose employer-sponsored coverage in those places may have less access to affordable coverage options.
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