if you lose your job in a bad economy, you don't also lose your health care (i find that incredibly frightening)
Not only that, if you're part-time or a temporary contract worker, you don't get health benefits either. There was a HUGE lawsuit against M'$oft here a while ago because people who'd been temp employees for decades didn't have benefits, stocks, &c, other things permanent employees got. Also, Medicare here is insane -- for two people without kids, your income has to be around $15,000. That's less than our yearly rent.
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Not only that, if you're part-time or a temporary contract worker, you don't get health benefits either. There was a HUGE lawsuit against M'$oft here a while ago because people who'd been temp employees for decades didn't have benefits, stocks, &c, other things permanent employees got. Also, Medicare here is insane -- for two people without kids, your income has to be around $15,000. That's less than our yearly rent.