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UK geezer again: and reading about various things in the US, I've realised what a drag on business health benefits are. In UK, you just don't need to think abou

• simonh 8y ago
  Corporate health benefits in the US are a racket. They are not subject to tax, while personal private health insurance is taxed. So it's basically a huge corporate subsidy, while small companies and private individuals get shafted. It's really weird. Here in the UK I'm distinctly right of centre, but in US terms I'm a proper leftie. I don't see it as socialism though, it's just pragmatism. Certain ways of doing things, like centralising and consolidating some service provision, just provably and demonstrably from considerable practical experience in many countries over a long period of time works better that way. For other things, most things actually, markets, capitalism and private enterprise work best.