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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
CrackerBarrel (love your rocking chairs, btw), what do you pay each month for health insurance?
I don't get why we attach health insurance in this country to employers. The two have nothing to do with each other.
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I've got grad student health insurance through my school, so it's pretty low.
I think that insurance attached to employers for reasons that are two-fold: one is that companies with highly skilled workforces need to keep their workers healthy because they are hard to replace, so it was in their interest to insure them. Then unskilled workers saw what was going on and collective bargaining led to a lot of union workers getting health insurance, and it kind of spread from there.
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