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Health insurance costs have increased faster than inflation for decades and is responsible for the total increase in compensation[1]. Workers are not getting m
by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Health insurance costs have increased faster than inflation for decades and is responsible for the total increase in compensation[1].
Workers are not getting more or better benefits. They're getting the same or worse benefits, it's just that health insurance costs for the same plans increase each year at a rate that vastly outpaces inflation.
[1] https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AU065A_INSUR_9U_20170919122105.jpg https://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BF-AU065A_INSUR_9...
- refurb 7y agoThat's true, but it also contradicts the claim that compensation isn't going up. Sure it's going towards ever more expensive healthcare, but it is going up.
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- maximente 7y agoyou seem to have both shifted the frame from wages to compensation then defeated a non-existent claim about it, so that seems like a mighty straw man.