Comment on Employers ditching health coverage
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Push everyone onto the private market and jack the prices up with worse service. Just like everything else.
Because even though the employer health care was shitty for a lot of reasons it did have one thing going for it: the ability of a powerful corporation to negotiate the best rates it could in order to keep its costs down.
If it’s no longer tied to jobs, we lose that last advantage.
Limonene@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was another reason: Employer-provided health insurance is not taxed as income in the US. This is the main reason healthcare is tied to employment.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I don’t understand the connection, tbh.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I knw of no place that cites the taxes as a “benefit” or a main reason.
Health care was tied to emplyment as a means to attract workers. That’s it. The fact any of it is untaxed is at the whim of the government, not the employer. If anything the employer-based health care is a shackle, you lose your job or get fired you lose insurance.
I’m sure if enough people get kicked off employer health care or enough corpos say they’re no longer offering it the government will allow some sort of pre-tax or no-tax income allowance to individuals based on reported health insurance costs.
Maybe.