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I thought the way that health insurance got tied to employment was through government incentives for employers to do so? E.g. not being taxed when provided as a
by dnissley 4y ago
I thought the way that health insurance got tied to employment was through government incentives for employers to do so? E.g. not being taxed when provided as a benefit
- UncleMeat 4y agoThat's still a market. Employers choose among many different insurance options. Employees choose employers in part because of benefits.
- WalterBright 4y agoThe government distortion of the market via tax policy made it much harder to select health insurance providers based on their merits. Noting this makes it inaccurate to assign blame for such failing on the free market.
- UncleMeat 4y agoGovernment distortion doesn't make it a command economy. Whatever you want to call it, the thing that we have and the thing that libertarians want observably produces shit outcomes in a number of domains. If I can't blame the free market, I can blame the political advocates who claim to want a free market for the specific outcomes of their policies.