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I've often felt that if you would remove health insurance from the employer-employee equation completely it'd be a financial boon for business. How many more em
by KWD 17y ago
I've often felt that if you would remove health insurance from the employer-employee equation completely it'd be a financial boon for business. How many more employees could be hired, how much more could be put into product development, etc., etc., if one of the largest (and always growing) company expenses was not health insurance for employees.
(I'd also like to see health insurance be at a national level instead of being regulated state-by-state, but that's another topic.)
- yardie 17y agoI feel the same way, but I also know it's an institution unto itself. Think about it. Employer provided healthcare has been around since WW2. And you would have to convince the big dogs MS, IBM, KBR, GM,etc. to dismantle a system that they helped create. Even if the legislation did exist to dismantle the system it would still continue through sheer bulk. ie Microsoft will always be able to negotiate a better price for MS employees due to the fact that they have thousands of employees.