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Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by malloryerik on Sunday June 18, 2017 @05:50AM (#14579868)
This is why healthcare should be decoupled from employment. Your work and your doctor should have nothing to do with each other. It distorts the market and limits innovation.
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by grecy on Sunday June 18, 2017 @06:44AM (#14580051)
It also makes people slaves
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by eeZah7Ux on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:22AM (#14580350)
In countries with at-will employment an old person with a long-term life threatening condition (e.g. cancer) is pretty much company property.
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by raarts on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:31AM (#14580561)
>countries

You'd be hard-pressed to find a country that as at-will employment besides the US.

Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by kgwgk on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:47PM (#14581513)
In Switzerland the contract can be terminated at will by both the employer or the employee, with the same notice period (in general one, two or three months depending on how long the contract has been in force).
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by omnimus on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:24PM (#14581729)
But health care although not free is heavily regulated and mandatory. Switzerland does have social help. And there is much less poverty. And most of the people living in poverty are not poor homeless poor. They just dont qualify because the avrage income is so big.

You cant compare it.

Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by kgwgk on Sunday June 18, 2017 @01:30PM (#14581772)
> You'd be hard-pressed to find a country that as at-will employment besides the US.

Where does that statement mention healthcare or any of the other things you talk about?

Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by corobo on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:59AM (#14587454)
Context. The subject is in the comment above the one you quoted. Conversations diverge and reconvene, it's how they work.
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by kgwgk on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:28PM (#14588164)
Indeed. And my comment was in the context of someone saying that the US is the only country which has at-will employment. I was not comparing Switzerland to the US and I'm perfectly aware it's different in many aspects.
Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by omnimus on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @11:30AM (#14654948)
It was jump indeed.

What i was trying to say is that the fact that Switzerland has similar you can be fired at will laws as US. The situation is not at all similar because of the other factors.

I think you understand very well what i mean, so please lets not pick on words.

Re:Your own company? You can do it (2011) by nickpsecurity on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:29AM (#14580555)
There's quite a few in my company that are only there for the health insurance. It's cheap but their meds aren't.