This may be the launching pad to structure a good reform bill to dismantle Obamacare. Give voters the same tax benefit as businesses get but give them MORE choice to pick their own plan. It will be a great consumer driven basis. Then free all the restraints set in Obamacare the reduced choice.
Obama DIDN'T say "If you like your company's health insurance plan, you can keep it.", now did he?
So it was just a fluke that companies provided health insurance in the first place, therefore you're not really losing anything if you never legitimately had it in the first place.
Some people just don’t get it. This is exactly what the Progressives want. It clears the way for their Single Payer System.
Health care was a lot cheaper back then. If you got seriously sick, you died. Most did not survive cancer. If they did it was after butchery. Breast cancer surgery took the breast, underlying muscle, lymph nodes in the upper arms. Most people did not survive heart attacks. Now we have clotting inhibitors. Today we have MRI, CAT, ultrasound. Medications that were not dreamed of. A lot has changed.
Thanks goodness we have Obama in charge, someone who cares about us, he really does, I know....
We need he and Liz Warren to *fight* for us.
Like on minimum wage.
String up some employers in public to send the rest of them a warning.
Off with their heads.
Long live Obama, our King.
This has actually been the plan all along.
Every politician who opposes Obamacare should be frequently reminding their constituents that the greatest negative impact of Obamacare was put off by one of Obama’s many cowardly moves to avoid the full impact becoming known before the November midterm elections.
But I don’t hear the postponed employer mandate mentioned very often.
Just wait til the real anguish begins, after the election when the employer mandate kicks in, and people see benefits and insurance cancellations like never before. But the important thing is, all the Democrat incumbents who voted for Obamacare will have won re-election by then /s
Thanks to Obama, this has been pushed back (illegally) until after the mid-term elections.
If only there was some way we could have seen this coming...
/s
The main difference hasn't anything to do with insurance. What made the difference was, we had a free market in healthcare back then.
Consequently, things were much cheaper in real terms, and you got better service and more accountability. A night in the hospital was less than $20, which adjusted for inflation would be less than $200 in today's dollars. Compare that to 3- to 5,000 today.
It's gov't involvement which is the prime factor for today's healthcare disaster, and it's been eating away for decades (thanks LBJ and the Great Society). Just like with college tuition.
“... companies began to offer health insurance
as a fringe benefit to help recruit workers...
... it was basically by accident that
employer-provided health insurance became the norm ...”
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No, it was government control that started it.
During WWII the federal government froze wages,
and since business could not attract good employees
by offering higher wages, they developed a work-around
and began to offer non-wage benefits like health care,
paid vacations, retirement plans, etc.
Government stated the whole thing by poking their nose
into the free market in the first place.
Thank you Captain Obvious!
I worked for a major company in the late 1970’s. They did not pay for your insurance but had a plan that you could sign up for and pay yourself through payroll deduction. Cost $50 a month for me and two children - $250 deductible and then 20% co-pay. Kids in all kinds of competitive sports and we were on a first name basis with the local orthopedic and dentist. The employer administered the plan and paid their own claims. Just great coverage.
Considering that it was a privately held firm, although it was world wide, and that the owners were very thrifty, doubt if they subsidized it and wouldn’t have offered it if they weren’t at least breaking even.
Look at all the empty store fronts. Once employing thousands of people. No job thanks to the democrats.
Fast forward three or four decades, and expectations shifted such that companies were expected to provide health insurance for employees. Now it has become the government's obligation via taxpayers to provide health care for every single American!
Government is solely a force. It is a force, as George Washington said, that is a "dangerous servant" with potential of becoming a "fearful master."
I will only vote for candidates who advocate for REDUCING GOVERNMENT as the first-line tactic of addressing ANY of America's ills, from moral to economic.