If your health plan is portable, you should be able to take it with you, through the time you are out of work and on to your next job, without changing doctors. We'll have to wait and see how much assistance is provided to help people pay their premiums till they find another job. Obviously, an insurance company that is a good cherry picker winds up with a group of enrollees that don't go to the doctor much. So a couple of the worst aspects of our current for-profit medical system may be brought under control. Three items come to mind.
Insurance companies appear to have taken to it like ducks to water.
The other two, universal coverage and employer mandates to pay the bill, look like they've definitely gone in the tank. My own view of this mess is that Clinton tried for too little rather than too much. If he had sided with Seattle's Jim McDermott and fought for a single-payer government health insurance program, he might have generated enough support from the grass roots in America to stand a fighting chance against the Republicans and their insurance industry pals. WFP Collective, Inc.