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There are tax breaks to providing health insurance through your employer, so companies are incentivized to compensate you with health insurance instead of more
by benmathes 14y ago
There are tax breaks to providing health insurance through your employer, so companies are incentivized to compensate you with health insurance instead of more cash.
- Drbble 14y agoThat's trivial to fix by restructuring the tax deduction to make it employee-side
- benmathes 14y agoComing up with a better way is trivial, yes, but getting it past the entrenched interests of one of the largest sectors of the economy (Healthcare) is ridiculously hard.
- temphn 14y agoYes, I know this. The solution is to either repeal those tax breaks or provide the same ones to individuals, to put all purchasers on the same playing field. Can't possible be more dislocating than the health care reform bill itself.