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You're reading too much into my post. Employer-based health insurance is a terrible idea. Single-payer is IMO the only reasonable choice, but employer-based pri
by gamble 16y ago
You're reading too much into my post. Employer-based health insurance is a terrible idea. Single-payer is IMO the only reasonable choice, but employer-based private insurance is just about the worst conceivable option. Unfortunately, it is deeply embedded.
My point was that the only reason the current system hasn't completely killed new business formation is that employees and founders are able to freeload. Freeloading takes a broken system and makes it even more unfair and dysfunctional.
- gojomo 16y agoFair enough; with your clarification I can see what you meant. Still, what you call 'freeloading' I see as local approximations of a more-logical system, where someone else – anyone else – pays rather than companies directly. Since it allows a necessary good thing – business formation – to happen, it looks like a step in a fairer/more-functional direction to me.