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>> People are most upset about the health insurance aspect. The issues need to be decoupled The employer should pay for it. It’s a benefit like retirement savi
by bluedino 6y ago
>> People are most upset about the health insurance aspect. The issues need to be decoupled
The employer should pay for it. It’s a benefit like retirement savings.
If employers want better employees, they can offer fully-paid or low deductible plans to their employees.
I do not want the US government running healthcare.
- CydeWeys 6y agoWhy, from first principles, should healthcare be tied to employment? Most other countries don't do it this way. That we do it here is just an accident of history (healthcare as a benefit is not treated as taxable).
- renewiltord 6y agoYou're trapped in the present and unable to think of a better future. This is all better horse rhetoric: "horses should be trained to go drink their own water and poop in designated areas just like they can be trained to seek food". No. The right answer is to deregulate healthcare so that you can buy it from anywhere. You can still have your AMA-certified doctors, but if you can get other doctors as well, you'll be better off. The reason for that is that while wealthy people like the US middle class worry about the quality of care, everyone below them merely worries about access. Even care that is a fifth as good, if accessible will be superior to inaccessible care that is currently available.
- foogazi 6y agoThe US government already runs housing, schools, retirement plans. But it doesn’t mean private lenders, private schools or private retirement companies have disappeared. The same US government incentivizes employer healthcare by allowing the deductibility of those benefits - which allows the healthcare industry to capture that money, and employers to trap employees.