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It absolutely was not better. It was the same system we have now but only offered through employers and if you ever switched jobs (and therefore insurance), nothing you'd previously been diagnosed with was covered under the new insurance.
Today (or at least when I last lived in the us) has much higher-deductable plans and a host of other things that wind up taking more out of pocket. I used to joke I got better insurance working at a Wendy's in 1999 than I had working in healthcare in 2013