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It's not a race to the bottom. It's a correction. Why should your health care be determined by your employer? It's a ludicrous system that should have died deca

• gaius 9y ago
  Why should your health care be determined by your employer? In the UK it’s provided by the NHS but these companies systematically dodge employer’s NI.
• mywittyname 9y ago
  It is both.
  • bronson 9y ago
    A correction to the bottom?
    • Chaebixi 9y ago
      Yes, a correction to the most dehumanized form of employer-employee relationship possible, which is following the logic of the market (dominated by asymmetric information and power) to its end.
• untog 9y ago
  > Why should your health care be determined by your employer? It's a ludicrous system that should have died decades ago. Yeah but it's being replaced by insurance that is utterly unaffordable for a lot of contract employees. If we want to decouple health insurance and employers (and we should) then we should be proactively working out what that looks like in the future.
  • FireBeyond 9y ago
    > utterly unaffordable for a lot of contract employees Caused in part by the issues of employability of (some) chronically ill people, driving up costs, and making "individual" plans de facto "high risk pool plans". Which would be helped by, as you said (and I agree): > decouple health insurance and employer