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Speaking as someone who has teetered on the edge of disability most of my life, so does essentially everyone else. We tie health insurance/access to healthcare to your employer for a few reasons, but I think fundamentally it's because we believe that those who cannot work are undeserving.



the healthcare-employment thing is mostly American.

but about cannot work -> undeserving, I think it's mostly idle -> undeserving. Americans are terribly worried about idleness.




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