Healthcare continuity (ie sticking with doctors/dentists and health orgs you like and are familiar with) is weirdly turning out to be the strongest incentive to be anchored to a single place geographically. The worse your health, the higher the costs of moving around.
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Replying to @vgr
Maybe this is obvious but under our current idiotic system It also anchors you to a job, because switching jobs means switching insurers.
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Is that true? Regional insurance markets tend to have fewer players than employment markets so you will likely be able to keep the doctors at least
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Replying to @vgr
Different insurers have different provider networks. I thought job lock was a universally recognized problem?https://www.niskanencenter.org/whats-wrong-with-employer-sponsored-health-insurance/ …
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Theoretically, but from what I’ve seen, in larger metro areas many employers offer roughly similar option sets with overlapping providers so there’s a good chance you can keep your doctor and clinic and just change insurer
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