I have everything pretty much ready to launch full time. Time, skills, customers, support from family. But I’d leave my current job behind and with it my family’s health insurance for the foreseeable future. I can’t afford any of the options I’ve seen. It’s the one thing holding me back. Any ideas for affordable health insurance for startups? If you’ve been in the same situation, what did you end up doing?
Does your idea only work in the US? Can you move to a country that’s, y’know, more sane with healthcare (and I say this as a former US healthcare IT worker now living in another country).
It would work anywhere, but the opportunity I have is in the US and moving overseas right now is not really an option.
I do feel discouraged that it’s the healthcare system that’s holding back my business opportunity. Shouldn’t be like that.
Your business opportunity isn’t an opportunity for competitors’ shareholders; you’re more valuable to them being exploited for labor, and decades of “socialism is communism” governments and corporate lobbying have made it as difficult as possible to enter the market without being funded by and beholden to investment firms.
While the situation is utter shite, don’t let it discourage you. Just make sure to be safe and have an emergency fund that isn’t tied up in your business.
Write a letter to the editors of major media outlets, including Forbes and wish. Complain bitterly about politics stifling business, innovation and your freedoms, courtesy copy your Republican and Dem representatives at state and national levels.