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Yes - the reason why health insurance is so pervasive as an employee benefit is that it can be written off with no taxes, whereas currently this kind of monthly
by lionhearted 17y ago
Yes - the reason why health insurance is so pervasive as an employee benefit is that it can be written off with no taxes, whereas currently this kind of monthly-fee unlimited visit medicine can't. That's asinine from a tax perspective, but that's how the current system works.
- philwelch 17y agoBetween people who don't get insurance through work and people who do but want better service, this has a definite niche.
- lupin_sansei 17y agoThe origin of health insurance as an employee benefit in the US is that during World War 2 wages were fixed, so employer provided health insurance was a government approved way to give more to the employee through benefits. Basically it's a bad hack to get around a bug.