I hear from staff employees all the time who say: “I’d love to go freelance/start a company, but my job has the health insurance for the family.”
Or: “If anything happened to my job my family would be screwed. My company provides our medical coverage.”
On the surface that sounds like a noble stance. After all, you’ve been warned for decades not to go without health insurance lest you be one of 1.7 million households NerdWallet estimates will file for bankruptcy because they can’t pay their medical bills, or worse: One of the estimated 45,000 people who die because of lack of health insurance.
