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I wish more people realized how anti-capitalist the current healthcare system is in the U.S. If you want to encourage business, then remove barriers. Governmen
by boplicity 5y ago
I wish more people realized how anti-capitalist the current healthcare system is in the U.S.
If you want to encourage business, then remove barriers. Governments should be taking care of healthcare, not businesses.
Businesses should be focused on the core work they do: Running their business. Not on providing health care.
(Same goes, really, for childcare, transportation, and similar benefits that large employers sometimes offer, often because these things are not effectively provided by the government.)
- hellisothers 5y agoCan the government take back all those sweet sweet tax deductions they provide in exchange?
- d0gsg0w00f 5y agoMost of those seem decent [1] but mostly related to reducing taxes on income you put into the government social program instead of letting you invest somewhere else. Not sure employers would see the tax breaks as enough justification if they weren't forced. [1] - https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/employer-and-individual-tax-incentives-to-offer-he.aspx https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/employer-and-individual...
- etchalon 5y agoCompletely agree. Universal healthcare would empower a lot of entrepreneurs, make it easier to attract talent for smaller companies, and free me of a completely ridiculous amount of paperwork and oversight each year. If someone told me, as a business, I could just pay a tax and know my employees had access to the same quality of care as everyone else, I'd sign up in a heart beat.
- dantheman 5y agoHow about we get companies and government out of healthcare?
- tmathmeyer 5y agoyou just want no health care at all then?
- dantheman 5y agoNope, how about you just buy insurance outside of the workplace like any other thing.
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo you meant 'employers' rather than 'companies'?
- ClumsyPilot 5y agoSo what's left, witch doctors?
- etchalon 5y agoIf you can show me a working health care system, without any government regulation, I'll pretend this is a valid option.