FWIW, my version of your struggle is exactly what *15 years ago* drove me to get a p/t job in retail that I needed to become a f/t job in order to stop paying $1000/month for health insurance. It took me almost 30 years to finally come to that decision and choice. It worked for almost 15 years, it but stopped working when I lost my last f/t job in 2014. Now I’m 62 and paying my own health insurance again and it’s due to go up by 30%+ next year. #UNSUSTAINABLE
It’s better to come to where you are now at 30 than it is to come to it when you’re in your 60s. My advice is to get the best-paying job you can get that you can stand, w/the best health insurance you can get, until this all settles out one way or the other. You are young enough and hard-working enough to pick it up– even as an ex-pat, if it comes to having to leave the US– and make it work in a few years. But things are so up in the air now and you have real issues to deal with.
One step forward, two steps back, three steps forward and onward until morning, I say.