Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfair and Inefficient?

Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by speeder390 on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:36PM (#19902368)

There is a huge amount of age discrimination. If you are over 40 especially in most STEM fields, you may accounting especially. Most of the 'auditors' at the Big 4 look like they are just out of school (college). For a full time middle class white collar job that provides health insurance,Employers want people under 40, white and have no gaps in employment.

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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by mieseratte on Monday May 13, 2019 @02:44PM (#19902463)

> want people under 40, white

Multiple protected classes? Sounds like a lawsuit.

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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by turk73 on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:11PM (#19902808)

Yup, am mid-40s and already tech employment is a crapshoot in a lot of ways. Not that the jobs are worth working at other than the pay being good. The expectations have gone through the roof.

"Oh, we pay you an inflation-adjusted equivalent of 1980s $50K a year so you should be absolutely devoted to us."

Yeah, whatever.

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Re:Does Employment-Based Insurance Make US Medical Care Unfa... by merpnderp on Monday May 13, 2019 @04:01PM (#19903340)

In 1985, making $50k would make you one of the highest paid engineers in the country. Now it's a much more common pay range. Is your issue that pay hasn't outpaced inflation at a high enough rate?

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