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To: Gaffer

We’ve been spoiled...no employer should have ever provided health care benefits for their employees in the first place.


30 posted on 10/02/2013 2:43:37 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: who knows what evil?

Medical insurance began as a result of wage controls in WWII and after. Employers had to offer something that wasn’t wage controlled.


31 posted on 10/02/2013 2:44:53 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: who knows what evil?

It was the government wage caps that led businesses to find other incentives to hire and keep scarce workers during the war by offering to pay for health care.


55 posted on 10/02/2013 12:27:31 PM PDT by listenhillary (Courts, law enforcement, roads and national defense should be the extent of government)
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