Yes, but I have a healthy family and the shittiest, pay nothing insurance would cost $1700 a month and growing. That's more than I pay for my mortgage. So it's true I could buy insurance if I wanted, but it's financially crippling and you get almost nothing for it.

It's a complete and utter scam.

Bernie Sanders recently asked people on Twitter what their most absurd medical bills were and the response was enlightening as to the current health care status in the US:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2019/09/17/bernie-sand...

Sure, except individuals have less knowledge of and negotiating power with those insurance companies. So per-person costs are actually higher than if the employer provided the insurance. Additionally, I highly doubt Amazon will pay its employees more to cover the health insurance that those employees will now have to pay for entirely out of pocket.