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" It is impossible for 80% of Americans to receive something from their employer if 80% of Americans didn't even have an employer." Data aside, that is not a l
by scarecrowbob 14y ago
" It is impossible for 80% of Americans to receive something from their employer if 80% of Americans didn't even have an employer."
Data aside, that is not a logically true claim: in 1980, I had health insurance... through my mother's employer.
- DGCA 14y agoDon't forget spouses.
- aalbertson 14y agoding ding ding!!! I was just about to chime in about that. Are these stats accounting for spouse and children and adults in school/military at the time? I'd be curious to see how the numbers break down. Also of note is that when you do calculate in Spouses and children, they still had insurance because it was less common to "only insure yourself" (I have no data to back that statement up).
- yummyfajitas 14y agoNhashem didn't say "through someone else's employer".
- scarecrowbob 14y agoIf you want to be pedantic about it, understand me as just evaluating your proposition. But yes, I suppose that on some level you're right: 80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y ago>80% of the population has probably never been simultaneously employed. Nor will that ever be the case.