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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Why should the availability of health insurance be determined by whether one is employed, or married to someone who is?
As for the market, employer-provided health care is, from what I understand, principally an historical accident resulting from certain tax advantages combined with low costs of providing such years ago. If it were inherently sensibile, why do most countries that provide health care provide it through the government rather than employers?
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It is my understanding that these responsibilities were put on (or encouraged to be taken by) employers to get rid of some of the incentives for socialism.
I have bought foreign cars because I like them better and think they are made better. It was not a price issue. Plus, it is my understanding that the Germans, the Swedish and the Japanese all have quite hefty social welfare systems and/or employer-provided benefits.
The car thing is really a bad example because there aren't many decent cars (or cars at all) made in countries that have Hank's ideal perfect structure of the megarich and the serfs.
