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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by rumanator on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @02:35PM (#21880044)
Something is very wrong in a society when a worker depends on retaining his employment relationship with his current employer to have access to healthcare. Your employer should not have such power over the health of you and your family, and conversely the power to cut off your and your family's access to healthcare.
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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by taurath on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @03:51PM (#21880384)
It’s great for the employers, and all they have to do is astroturf their employees that it’s somehow good for them and they’re getting a great deal and any alternative is worse.
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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by rumanator on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @04:10PM (#21880484)
I mean, it's also great for the employee to have access to healthcare. Better to have than to have not. Yet, a society has a huge problem if the best it can do for it's citizens is to deepen the control of employees over vital aspects of their employees lives.
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Re:Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health ... by taurath on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @06:48PM (#21881144)
It’s not great if it means the employee gets worse quality care for more cost than anywhere else. Better than the alternative? The problem is in the question, not the choice.
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