COBRA is a joke, as if most could afford multi-thousand dollar a month bill when unemployed.
What that communicates to me is that those in power, both of the gov and of businesses, are primarily concerned with forcing productivity to make line go up than they are with incentivizing treating people humanely. But really I don't think that's so surprising considering the timeline we find ourselves in.
To be fair I hadn't looked closely at what all my workplace plan covered, but I was doing physical therapy when I switched that wasn't covered (had to reach high deductible) on my workplace plan and was covered on my marketplace plan!
(I'm in Illinois)
Sometimes even more frequently than once per year if an acquisition takes place.
One of the big scary talking points when politicians start talking about changing our insurance system is that people like their current plans and doctors and are scared to change things.
I just think this is silly since my plan has changed roughly annually since I've been in the workforce due to a combination of employers shopping plans, employers changing ownership and moving to the new company's plans, and switching jobs.
An in-between step to single payer would be to let me pick a marketplace plan and then let my employer reimburse it directly, provider a voucher, or something like that. At least that way I have the freedom to switch jobs without entering a whole new health insurance world, and which health plan I pick is none of my employer's business.