3 ms·
The only solution is for employers to stop offering healthcare. Give the equivalent in salary to employees and let the employee figure it out. When this start
by watertom 9y ago
The only solution is for employers to stop offering healthcare. Give the equivalent in salary to employees and let the employee figure it out. When this starts to en masses healthcare will get figured really quickly, i.e. single payer
The Fortune 1,000 won’t do this because they can control employees, wages and competition. Getting a small company off the ground is so much harder because only recent grads are willing to take a job without healthcare. I’ve turned down a dozen companies because of healthcare issues.
I also find it strange that we discuss guaranteed income as a viable solution but not guaranteed healthcare.
- pfranz 9y agoI know lobbyists are pushing their agenda, but why is nobody talking about the economic freedom of untethering employment to heathcare? So many people are tied to less than ideal jobs or prevented from starting their own business because of insurance. You also constantly hear about companies hiring contractors or cutting hours just under the margin where they owe benefits. It's funny that I often hear about how expensive COBRA is and how it's not a good deal. That's what your employer is paying for your insurance. (in an ideal world) that is would-be compensation of your's. I know the actual cost of healthcare isn't pretty, but it does no one favors by hiding it and tying it to your employer with weird tax incentives.