Living in Denmark, it's always so odd for me when health insurance is somehow connected to your job... Why?
Health is needed for anyone, both people who work and not. Why it only makes sense for everyone to have access for it, and everyone paying for it over taxes.
Keeping it connected with work is poodle giving the employers more power than they should have - they should not have any power over healthcare.
To add to this, most companies in the us have a waiting period before certain benefits kick in, like health insurance. So if you want to switch jobs for whatever reason, you better be extra careful for the first 3 months of your new job. Unless of course you want to pay $1,000 a month to keep your insurance through cobra, or go through the cluster fuck runaround of getting insurance on your own. So especially when your insurance cover your whole family, it's a nightmare.
Nothing wrong with gig work. Health insurance is the scam.
Edit:
IMO, the worst part of traditional employment is the monopolization of the worker's time. The expectation that the employer's claim to the worker's time supersedes the worker's own. The idea that a worker must "request" time off, with the employer empowered to approve or deny that request. This supremacy over the worker's schedule is abhorrent, and should be the rare exception rather than the general rule.
Gig work fundamentally reverses this expectation. The "client" has no expectation that a worker will show up tomorrow, or ever again.
By eliminating (what I consider to be) the worst aspect of traditional employment, gig work is extremely appealing to me.
Every company is scummy because there's no regulations and there are no regulations because general public (morons) think of license raj/communism when you mention regulations.