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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by boplicity on Monday September 13, 2021 @10:31AM (#28511973)
I wish more people realized how anti-capitalist the current healthcare system is in the U.S.

If you want to encourage business, then remove barriers. Governments should be taking care of healthcare, not businesses.

Businesses should be focused on the core work they do: Running their business. Not on providing health care.

(Same goes, really, for childcare, transportation, and similar benefits that large employers sometimes offer, often because these things are not effectively provided by the government.)

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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by etchalon on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:25AM (#28512671)
Completely agree. Universal healthcare would empower a lot of entrepreneurs, make it easier to attract talent for smaller companies, and free me of a completely ridiculous amount of paperwork and oversight each year. If someone told me, as a business, I could just pay a tax and know my employees had access to the same quality of care as everyone else, I'd sign up in a heart beat.
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by dantheman on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:57AM (#28513098)
How about we get companies and government out of healthcare?
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by ClumsyPilot on Monday September 13, 2021 @01:47PM (#28514400)
So what's left, witch doctors?
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by etchalon on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @02:50AM (#28521193)
If you can show me a working health care system, without any government regulation, I'll pretend this is a valid option.
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by tmathmeyer on Monday September 13, 2021 @12:56PM (#28513782)
you just want no health care at all then?
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by dantheman on Monday September 13, 2021 @02:56PM (#28515278)
Nope, how about you just buy insurance outside of the workplace like any other thing.
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by ClumsyPilot on Monday September 13, 2021 @03:29PM (#28515681)
So you meant 'employers' rather than 'companies'?
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by hellisothers on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:04AM (#28512382)
Can the government take back all those sweet sweet tax deductions they provide in exchange?
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Re:Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules by d0gsg0w00f on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:20AM (#28512609)
Most of those seem decent [1] but mostly related to reducing taxes on income you put into the government social program instead of letting you invest somewhere else. Not sure employers would see the tax breaks as enough justification if they weren't forced.

[1] - https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/employer-and-individual...

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