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1989 - Sammie Harbour, a 27-year-old with sickle-cell anemia, was "forced to choose between a job he liked and doctors he trusted," Newsweek wrote.

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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 mid1980s, insurance costs have surged by 740 percent, according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditures Survey by Clov