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It's not Eisenhower's administration that's to blame, it's FDR's. Employer based healthcare is a result of the stabilization act of 1942. Health benefits were o
by pg_bot 5y ago
It's not Eisenhower's administration that's to blame, it's FDR's. Employer based healthcare is a result of the stabilization act of 1942. Health benefits were offered as incentives to workers because employers could not raise wages.
- ch4s3 5y agoYeah, I realized on a second pass that I had jumbled the "middle way" stuff with the Roosevelt era bill.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Employer based healthcare is a result of the stabilization act of 1942. Health benefits were offered as incentives to workers because employers could not raise wages. Employers can raise wages, and have been able to for some time, so that's not why we still have it. We still have it because of tax and other incentives, and because government keeps making policy decisions to protect, and even extend it (e.g., the ACA employer mandate), not because of the employers need to offer health benefits to compete because they can't offer more wages because of WWII-era wage controls.
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoEmployers love employer-based healthcare because it gives them insane amounts of control over their employees’ livelihoods. And as a result, wage competition is far less influential. The fear of losing healthcare coverage a severe fear that people in other countries don’t have to worry about.
- ch4s3 5y agoI think a lot of employers find it to be a giant headache. It’s expensive and tricky to administer and has nothing to do with your core competency as a business.
- pg_bot 5y agoI did not state that this is why we currently have employer based health insurance, just why it came into existence. Many consider this to be the "original sin" of US healthcare policy.