The flip side of that is that, especially if you develop some kind of chronic condition, you could end up where, bluntly, displeasing your boss carries the death penalty (or at least corporal punishment). The “better” your current health plan is, the more grotesque, intimate medical leverage your employer wields over you.
As Clement Attlee (the British prime minister responsible for the NHS and much else besides) wrote, “a right established by law is less galling than an allowance made by a rich man”. Perhaps the fact that he boiled down the case for democratic socialism in such a concise, unmelodramatic way is why most of the media have spent the intervening decades trying to conceal his existence. As I was just spamming in another BB thread, that’s why I created a 3D printable pocket Attlee that I hope will go viral and elevate the world’s consciousness.
