Re:Why Employee Benefits Will Become Irrelevant
by danans on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:28PM
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If done well, this could empower employees to decouple critical life needs (health insurance, retirement) from their employers. If done poorly (i.e. the non-employer options and tax benefits are not good), then it will just create a 2-tier system where you have a class of workers with great benefits, and those with terrible ones... Oh wait, that's what we have now, right?
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Re:Why Employee Benefits Will Become Irrelevant
by nsxwolf on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @12:47PM
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Take away the tax incentives and let the market readjust. Imagine if employers provided our food directly and all the issues that would result from that. And then imagine what would happen if someone suggested ending that - we'd hear about how employers can buy food at a bulk discount, tax breaks, everyone's going to starve, etc.
Getting employers out of the health insurance game also conveniently dispenses with controversies like the HHS contraception mandate/Hobby Lobby etc.