Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra...
by rayhendricks on Thursday August 20, 2020 @10:27PM
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More specifically we need to totally decouple health insurance from employment. This is not post-ww2 anymore. No more Cadillac plans from FAANG companies either unless your paying for it out of your own pocket.
This would immediately solve half of the problems with healthcare in this country if everyone had to use the health insurance exchanges to buy insurance.
Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra...
by scarface74 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @11:43PM
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My health care plan was better and cheaper when I was working for a 50 person company than it is at a FAANG. Then again, I work for the one that is all about “frugality”....
It’s not bad, but no better than my jobs before the last one.
Re:Uber and Lyft shutdown in California averted as judge gra...
by cbmuser on Friday August 21, 2020 @09:13AM
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> And that is the way it works, in functional countries.
In Germany, neither health insurance nor unemployment insurance are paid through taxes. Both are deducted from your salary.
It is true, however, that the government subsidizes the public health insurance so that low-income households can afford an insurance.
Also, we have similar laws in Germany (and most European) countries like AB5 that prohibit misclassification of employees as independent contractors:
And I absolutely agree, divorcing healthcare from employment is the single best thing the US could do to help fix several different issues.
But "We could massively restructure the US economy" is only an answer to "how should rideshare employees be classified" if you want to ensure nothing changes.