> Your healthcare insurance being dependent on your employer seems like hell though

It absolutely is.

America is great if you make at least 150k a year and never get sick.

The moment you get sick with anything serious your employer might fire you. Labor protections in America are a bad joke. Your boss wants to fire you because your taking time off to look after a sick relative, I guess you can sue, but they’ll blame something and probably win.

Your boss lies to your face about pay and benefits, ohh well sucks to suck.

Very minor illnesses turn catastrophic. Several stories have emerged of otherwise healthy young people going without insulin and not doing so well…

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shane-patrick-boyle-died-a...

Even if you have insurance, ohh well…

> Parents sue over son's asthma death days after inhaler price soared without warning Cole Schmidtknecht, 22, had insurance but couldn’t afford to refill his asthma inhaler after the cost jumped from $70 to more than $500.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/asthma-death-pres...

Half the country cheers this on. The idea of some ‘lazy’ person getting something they don’t deserve rationalizes this dystopian system.

Of course the American system ends up costing significantly more for worse outcomes.

Access to therapy is usually gate kept to those with expensive insurance plans. Medicare, if it covers it at all can easily have a 1 year wait list for therapy.

Not to mention that most people get no meaningful vacation time.

Want to quit because you’re burnt out. Even if you have savings you won’t have health insurance. You won’t be able to afford therapy without it.

Get back on the hamster wheel.

I do regret not making a better effort to leave earlier. It’s not going to get better