International Business Times, April 6, 2016: Expanding Medicaid Eligibility Would Help Low-Income Workers Find Better Jobs: Study
“But a recently study suggests that more Americans would be emboldened to switch jobs if their access to health insurance wasn’t tethered to their employers. This uniquely American system encourages so-called job lock, in which workers are fearful of migrating to potentially better-paying jobs out of fear of losing access to employer-subsidized access to medicine and doctor’s visits.”