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Why tie health insurance to a job?
I hate to be Captain Obvious, but these guys are asking a question that has an easy answer: to keep sick people from getting it.
Okay, so maybe that’s not the real reason, but consider this: what other sorting mechanism does our system have? If you can work a decent job, you get quality health care. If you are too sick to work, you get lousy Medicaid. For decades employment-based insurance more or less functioned as a way to cut people from from higher-tier care when they got to be too expensive. Sure, it was never about the health care per se - but did it bother the company’s insurer one bit when the boss let someone go for “taking too many sick days”?
from here.
Yup.
I hate to be Captain Obvious, but these guys are asking a question that has an easy answer: to keep sick people from getting it.
Okay, so maybe that’s not the real reason, but consider this: what other sorting mechanism does our system have? If you can work a decent job, you get quality health care. If you are too sick to work, you get lousy Medicaid. For decades employment-based insurance more or less functioned as a way to cut people from from higher-tier care when they got to be too expensive. Sure, it was never about the health care per se - but did it bother the company’s insurer one bit when the boss let someone go for “taking too many sick days”?
from here.
Yup.