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Healthcare was not coupled to jobs in order to exploit employees. It was a response to government interventions preventing companies from paying employees more and so the companies started offering healthcare plans as part of their benefits in order to pay people more [0].

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/upshot/the-real-reason-th...

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An origin story that, if true, we weren’t there, means nothing. The justification to avoid change now is, often but not always, the impact it would have to employers ability to hire.

It’s a problem that can be legislated away with public scrutiny and effort. This kind of history is irrelevant to next steps; it’s not like advocating for a literal holocaust. The figurative identity of a business owner is not my problem.

Just expressing where my indifference for others lies. Keep people alive, figuratively kill coddled businesses.

Just to make sure that you get that we're mostly on the same page, I think the current insurance situation is overall insane (see billing and prices as an example).

That being said, this kind of history is absolutely not irrelevant to next steps. It is incredibly relevant since the situation we're in now is a direct consequence of a previous set of heavy handed restrictions introduced by the government.

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