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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by whiddershins on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:55PM (#26188088)
We already have unemployment insurance, it’s easy to imagine something like government assisted cobra for recent job loss.

We already have Medicaid for people who are chronically poor.

It’s possible to decouple healthcare from a specific employer without moving to single payer or similar. I often like to point to Germany to show there is are much more varied solutions that can be tried than people are likely to say.

Conflating all these different ideas makes it harder to find an optimal solution, IMO.

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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by mjevans on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:01AM (#26190715)
It's possible...

Single bidder though. A reverse dutch auction in each market region for qualified providers to offer services, and if the price in that market isn't desired then short term bring in the military docs, and longer term fund the education of more doctors with the provision that they resettle among the target areas needing coverage.

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Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising by imtringued on Friday February 19, 2021 @04:03AM (#26191041)
The problem with USA's private healthcare system is that it refuses to train enough doctors. You're supposed to overproduce doctors to drive prices down.
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