The Ridiculousness Of Employer-Based Healthcare
It's especially ridiculous now in an era when people might stay in a job a year or two and few stay in a single job throughout their career. This means you lose your health insurance every time you leave a job -- if you even can leave a job.
The dipshitted giant mistake that is Obamacare has not fixed this. Of course, why should we expect it to be sensible when our elected sellouts just voted for or against it along party lines. It could have had the White Supremacist theme song written in and few would have been the wiser.
Here, at NPR, from Alex Blumberg and Adam Davidson, is the story of how "accidents of history" created our health system.
This is a poorly written article that tells a very small part ofthe story.
The reason health insurance became almost totally employee based was the income tax was so regressive after World War II that raising someones salary and promoting them, often led to less take home income.
But this is what I would expect from NPR which usually goes to great lengths to hide the role that government had in creating this debacle.
Businesses struggled to find a way of compensating workers and executives, that fell outside of the 90 percent federal tax rate on upper middle class incomes.
Ergo, health insurance, company cars, free housing, and a host of other benefits that fell outside of the income tax rules.
I do not believe my family had health insurance until my mother took a job in the school system when I was 6. It was quite easy to pay out of pocket for what medical care was available, including hospital stays. This would be about 1961.
Next I expect a clueless article that explains how scholarships have driven up tuition, as opposed to the government backed loans, and grants which blew up the education bubble.
Isab at September 20, 2013 12:45 PM
Until the federal government started exceeding the Constitution with the 16th Amendment and such things as Social Security the fed didn't matter.
We are now screwed by the post-Constitutional government we have now.
Jim P. at September 20, 2013 9:49 PM
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