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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 773734" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p>If the question is why do companies pay for health care that is easy to answer. During the great war the government forced wage controls on industry in an effort to keep costs of fighting the war down(among other equally stupid reasons). Shocker that some companies were having trouble finding employees so the government in their lack of wisdom decided to exempt health insurance from your wage. Eventually wage controls were dropped but the exemption for health insurance remained. So you&#039;d have to be stupid to not want your employer to pay for health insurance if that portion of your wages is exempt from the income tax penalty. Like I said early on if the goal was to lower the cost of health care in this country one of the things that would have to happen is to include employer provided health insurance as your income. If health care is a limited resource and there is no perceived penalty for consumption with extremely good health insurance it leads to overconsumption of this limited resource. You only have to look at Canada to see how that plays out. The system we have in place only encourages employees to want a higher share of their income as tax free health insurance.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 773734, member: 8259"] If the question is why do companies pay for health care that is easy to answer. During the great war the government forced wage controls on industry in an effort to keep costs of fighting the war down(among other equally stupid reasons). Shocker that some companies were having trouble finding employees so the government in their lack of wisdom decided to exempt health insurance from your wage. Eventually wage controls were dropped but the exemption for health insurance remained. So you'd have to be stupid to not want your employer to pay for health insurance if that portion of your wages is exempt from the income tax penalty. Like I said early on if the goal was to lower the cost of health care in this country one of the things that would have to happen is to include employer provided health insurance as your income. If health care is a limited resource and there is no perceived penalty for consumption with extremely good health insurance it leads to overconsumption of this limited resource. You only have to look at Canada to see how that plays out. The system we have in place only encourages employees to want a higher share of their income as tax free health insurance. [/QUOTE]

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