The only reason they got in the business of providing health insurance for employees in the first place was as a way to get around wartime wage controls.
This, I knew....apparently some other people here think it was a right or some law that required health care and are ready to blame all sorts of ills on our society because of it - from those thinking it is a basic right, to those that over analyze the actions of legitimate capitalist employers trying to maximize their worth.
I am at loss arguing with these people. You are paid what the heck you are worth, period. Ever since I left 8 years in the US Military with ‘free healthcare’ where my wife had to wait until my birthday to make any dental appointment, and my stint with their doctors getting practice for their after-service ‘practice, I realized that you need to make yourself valuable to an employer to get what you want.
Go Gators. People cannot read for comprehension (not directed at you— having engaged in discussion with the unschooled).
This started with Kaiser. around the wage controls of the Liberty shipyards under WWII contracts.. which has now blossomed under this govt./union largesse into the nightmare HMO/foundation “provider” of Kaiser Permanente system— the largest save Harvard Health. Entire agencies and systems emerged over the years to come to this idiotic point of obamaumaocare.
Scales of economics apply to the trough suckers just as much as to manufacturers. And the trough eaters are eating well these days off of our money.... the “other people’s money” Thatcher spoke so eloquently about and which money we have run out of (borrowed time) Deo Vindice.