Here's a breaking update on numbers of people who have lost their health insurance as a result of COVID-19, by country.

United States: 4,100,000
Australia: 0
New Zealand: 0
United Kingdom: 0
France: 0
Canada: 0
Japan: 0
Singapore: 0
Austria: 0
Switzerland: 0
Germany: 0
Norway: 0
Finland: 0
Denmark: 0
Sweden: 0
Taiwan: 0
Belgium: 0
Russia: 0
South Korea: 0

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

For those of us non-USians can you explain what that means? Does it mean that insurance companies unilaterally cancel insurance? Or do you mean that people can't pay the premiums because they aren't working?

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@ninalanyon Here in America, millions of people only have health insurance because their job pays for it. The virus has resulted in many companies laying off their workers, and that means they no longer have health insurance. So if they wanna go to the hospital they have to pay tens of thousands of dollars.