Before you downvote or comment why I'm wrong, hear me out.
We all need good, affordable Healthcare. And the first problem we encounter: it's not affordable. Not only is care not affordable, insurance rates for it are not affordable. Not with what low end jobs are paying.
But yet we say “low wage jobs need to offer benefits!” and yes at first glance they do, they need to be held to the same standards as higher paying jobs.
But that only works if the care they offer insurance rates that the employee can afford. And to my knowledge, they aren't.
Just yesterday, I picked up maybe 4-5 prescriptions for my mother in law. Who makes roughly $35/hr, and has benefits.
Her 4 prescriptions ran her $130!! Wait, you call that covered?? She's already paying them monthly!
More and more employers are offering “benefits”, but why would they?? How does it benefit them? It's certainly not cause we're bitching about it, it's because they don't want everyone on medicare!
Big pharma, corporations and our government are in it together. And free Medicare for all, means less money for them. Stop letting them give us the illusion of “affordable Healthcare” when we are still paying heaps for it.
Instead push for free universal health care. Shift the blame off the employer, and onto the government. Staying healthy is not a want, it's a need that everyone should be able to afford.