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Whitmire: Alabama lawmaker has a health care plan for lawmakers, not you Updated Feb 05, 2021; Posted Feb 05, 2021 Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, has a plan to guarantee health insurance eligibility for five years after losing your job if you re a lawmaker. Everybody else is on their own. (Mike Cason/[email protected]) Facebook Share This is an opinion column. If you lose your job, you could lose your health insurance. That isn’t fair. That isn’t ideal. That’s just the way it is. For most of us, at least. Just not for Alabama lawmakers. Employer-based insurance is an archaic system that needs to be replaced. Healthcare should be portable from one job to the next especially in the emerging gig economy with its dependence on contract workers. And it should be affordable when there’s no new job waiting when you lose your old one. ....