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Re:The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare by ryandrake on Monday August 05, 2024 @11:36AM (#41162343)
I don't see anything in that link about "fully paid" so the number of people with employer-provided health insurance fully paid by the employer is probably much lower.

> In 2019, the percentage of people with employer-provided coverage at the time of interview was slightly higher than in 2018, from 55.2 percent in 2018 to 55.4 percent in 2019

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Re:The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare by JumpCrisscross on Monday August 05, 2024 @12:53PM (#41163060)
> don't see anything in that link about "fully paid" so the number of people with employer-provided health insurance fully paid by the employer is probably much lower

You’re right. Tough to find statistics, in part because “fully paid” is ambiguous. (Saw this [1].)

The figure I should have referred to is 72% of Americans being happy with their own healthcare [2]. You’re not going to get single payer without convincing them they’re trading up.

[1] https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/what-percent-of-health-insur...

[2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/468176/americans-sour-healthcar...

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