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ammie Harbour, a 27-year-old with sickle-cell anemia, was “forced to choose between a job he liked and doctors he wrote. He “quit and joined another company with a better health plan.” A 2022 Census report reveals that 54.5 percent of Americans rely on employment-based health insurance, while 27.6 million remain uninsured, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since the mid-1980s, insurance costs have surged by 740 percent, according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditures Survey by Clover.
