[durasell]

Health insurance was a perk in the 1970s. Today it's the difference between getting a serious illness treated and the risk of losing everything.

[endthematrix]

"Health insurance was a perk in the 1970s. Today it's the difference between getting a serious illness treated and the risk of losing everything. "

It's called insurance for the very reason it is a financial burden when needed. You could get insurance then and today. It is not the employers responsibility.

[ConservativeMind]

That doesn't stop it from being an optional benefit (perk).

You can work extra to buy it if necessary or use the government's insurance as a fall-back.

A car is optional as well, but we don't see it that way. Still, we don't require businesses provide transportation for everyone for "free".

Perhaps if we could see that the vast majority of our health was in our own hands, people such as yourself could feel more comfortable with the insurance situation.

Catastrophic insurance is not that expensive and would prevent "losing everything".

Insurance, I maintain, is purely a perk.