What could and should make America powerful is the freedom to follow ones dreams – not stay trapped in a cubicle,paralysed by fear Millions of Americans are stuck in what some economists call “job-lock” or the inability to leave employment because of the risk of losing health insurance. A 2001 paper from Princeton’s middle for Economic Policy Studies showed, for example, and that self-employed people are 25% less likely to have health insurance than office workers.
Uncertainty surrounding the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA),widely known as Obamacare, has left many people feeling too petrified to risk leaving full-time employment to attempt something on their own. After several failed attempts to repeal the ACA, or the current administration may,in its latest tax scheme, get rid of the individual mandate that requires most Americans be insured.
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Source: guardian.co.uk