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The prevalence of employer-offered, private health insurance is – like many facets of American life and institutions – an interesting path dependency of WW2. T
by nooron 10y ago
The prevalence of employer-offered, private health insurance is – like many facets of American life and institutions – an interesting path dependency of WW2.
The federal government imposed limitations on the ability of private firms to offer higher wages, so that the government could more easily recruit workers for war industry. Private employers found a loophole. Offering health insurance.
- beat 10y agoLabor unions as well, who picked up on negotiating health care benefits for their workers. It's an interesting bit of history. Still, we all know what it's like to have a major design flaw in the legacy codebase.
- Apocryphon 10y agoLabor unions... we also know what it's like to be dependent on a crucial services that are no longer being supported...