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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (434663)11/12/2008 5:17:21 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1576912
 
"If you get $50K in salary, and $10K in health insurance subsidies from your employer, and they remove the subsidies, then you demand more money or other benefits, or go somewhere else."

The problem, though, is that real people don't think this way. Few people think of health insurance as compensation. One reason is that $10k at one company likely buys different coverage than $10k at another. In addition, you usually don't get the choice of pocketing the $10k or putting it into insurance. As long as their out of pocket expenses don't go up, most people would treat the substituting of universal health insurance with employer paid insurance to be a non-event. Now, the increase in taxes that such coverage would likely cause is another issue. But that would be true of any tax increase.
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