Your healthcare should not be tied to your job.
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I've been trying to find a good short read on this. Can you please recommend a source? How was it before? Through the community? (family? church?) -- Or was it not a big political issue because people were not getting as sick as they do today with mysterious autoimmune disease?
I read about it in one of the books I read for "The Refragmentation" (http://paulgraham.com/re.html , bibliography at the end), but I don't remember which. I'm not sure what people did before, but I suspect it was less of an issue, because there weren't so many expensive therapies.
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Excellent. Thank you sir.
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re. mutual aid, this is part of the story:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFoXyFmmGBQ …
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Sounds not too dissimilar from the advent of the 401K . A tax saving maneuver pivoting costs and risk onto the workers. The guy who coined the term was asked if he thought it’d be the primary source of retirement today. Short answer: absolutely not http://rescuingretirement.org/
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@paulg is right: the 1942 Stabilization Act limited employers ability to raise wages to compete for limited workers, so employers started offering benefits. Here's a good writeup from http://BLS.gov on the history. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/03/art1full.pdf …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I grew up in the 50's. My dad was a veteran. Worked for the railroad. Insurance paid the hospital bill. When we just went to the doctor my mom paid the bill. Insurance didn't cover office visits, dentists or medication. It evolved into that. Prices went up.
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Detaching insurance + employers should have been part of Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) - big missed opportunity that still needs to be solvedhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-the-us-has-employer-sponsored-health-insurance.amp.html …
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