This would seem to indicate that the best health care program is finding a job.
If Trump adds the 25 million jobs he’s targeted, then he will also add 25 million health care coverages.
Hint, go back to the 1980s and look at how many people were fully employed out of the whole population. Go talk to folks who were in their 30’s at the time. Ask them about health-care policies...they all had some deal. It might have been a two-star program, or just marginally acceptable....but it was better than nothing.
When those jobs in the 1990s went out to Mexico and China...and people were left with no job/health policy...that was the new reality of America.
If Trump can create two million jobs....more than half will have some kind of insurance attached. We need to bring back the open market, encourage cheaper health alternates, and just get the government out of the middle of this mess.
Bingo! Unless they are low-paying no-benefits jobs like most under Obama were, which will not be the case.
My former employer dropped its retiree healthcare as soon as Obamacare became law, saying now everyone could get cheaper coverage on the exchanges. That wasn’t true, but they cut the benefit for not only present but for future retirees as well. So if my former colleagues leave the company before 65 they will need to buy insurance if they do not get another job. This is one reason the trend will be for fewer people being covered by employer-provided insurance, and people who will be in the higher-risk age categories.
“If Trump adds the 25 million jobs he’s targeted, then he will also add 25 million health care coverages.”
I don’t think it would be quite that high.
Some of those jobs are likely to be contract type employment without benefits, (companies like to do that where it makes sense to help keep costs down)
Some of those jobs will likely be part-time without benefits, (companies like to do that where it makes sense to help keep costs down)
Some of those jobs will likely be second income jobs for a given household with the primary earner carrying the insurance cost.
Some of the newly employed will be hired on a trial basis without immediate access to benefits. Of that number a portion won’t make it past the trial period and will end up unemployed again. That cycle could repeat a time or two before a permanent employee is settled on.
I think the final number gaining new or primary insurance through job creation will be significantly lower than the total number of jobs created.