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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by nradov on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:32PM (#29595370)
There's more to employee compensation than just wages. Real total employee compensation has risen significantly since the 1970s when you factor in employer contributions to health insurance premiums. While some of that money is wasted, employees are getting tangible benefits in the form of new medical treatments that weren't even available 50 years ago.

What we need to do is decouple health insurance from employment.

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by NoGravitas on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:37PM (#29597313)
> What we need to do is decouple health insurance from employment.

The easiest way to do that would be with a national single payer health care system, which would also help lower total healthcare spending. But both mainstream political parties are dead set against doing such a thing.

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