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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by Apocryphon on Monday April 10, 2017 @01:22PM (#14080598)
The ideal solution would be to decouple the crucial benefits offered by W-2 jobs from those jobs. For instance, good health insurance- the government should offer a public option for that, instead. Given that medical debt is a crippling problem for many Americans, getting that resolved would go a long way towards recovering the Middle Class.
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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by prostoalex on Monday April 10, 2017 @01:29PM (#14080677)
> good health insurance- the government should offer a public option for that, instead

They do already offer the ACA exchanges as well as subsidies for low-income wage earners under ACA. ACA also mandates a maximum annual out-of-pocket cost of $6,600 per individual (and $13,200 for entire family). While still a substantial amount, it's a far cry from millions of dollars of medical bills that people were saddled with pre-ACA.

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