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> You get healthcare 7 days a week but only work for 4. Salary is only one component of compensation Thinking of healthcare as compensation is what got America
by ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
> You get healthcare 7 days a week but only work for 4. Salary is only one component of compensation
Thinking of healthcare as compensation is what got America into the healthcare mess it's in today.
- sleton38234234 4y agowell, it's not the root cause. there's many reasons why healthcare is way too expensive in america. the fact is that employers pay a huge sum for healthcare in the US and this makes up a sizable portion of your compensation. if you earn 50K and the health insurance for your family costs 20K per year, that's pretty big. the solution of course is to get those healthcare premiums lowered: that's going to require some kind of rationing.
- metabagel 4y agoCost controls, not rationing. The problem is that capitalism fails in the case of healthcare. How much is your health worth? Every last cent you’ve got.
- sleton38234234 4y agocost controls are a form of rationing and a good one, at least for the field of healthcare.
- sokoloff 4y agoIt emerged from government wage and price controls, wherein health care coverage was exempted. When employers couldn’t compete by raising wages (as that was made illegal), they chose to compete on health coverage. By the time the wage controls were rolled back, it was hard to get that genie back into the bottle.
- anticensor 4y agoThere used to be a maximum wage in the United States?
- sokoloff 4y agoThere was not a maximum wage, but there was a prohibition on raising wages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942#Contents https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942#Co...