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Re:How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives by KptMarchewa on Monday November 18, 2024 @08:59AM (#42172322)
>The reason is explicable - health insurance paid by the employer is tax-deductible, while insurance paid by the employee is not.

It would be very easy to reverse, if literally anyone was willing to.

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Re:How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives by jayd16 on Monday November 18, 2024 @10:43AM (#42173435)
Hillary was for single payer. Trump ran on repealing even the ACA. I don't think it's as simple as literally anyone.
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Re:How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives by KptMarchewa on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:09AM (#42173733)
I'm not talking about changing the healthcare system entirely, but the tax deduction status.
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Re:How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives by consteval on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:33AM (#42174019)
Right, but we're currently at a point politically where we're heavily considering regressions in healthcare and insurance, not progressions. We're talking about bringing back denying coverage for existing conditions and allowing insurance to deny medication on grounds of religious reasons.

Changing the tax deduction status would harm businesses, and therefore I can't see a conservative administration ever letting that fly.

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Re:How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives by KptMarchewa on Monday November 18, 2024 @11:47AM (#42174184)
Which goes again to my original point.
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