re: #322 wheat-dogghazi

Charity? When I was working in the USA, my (pre-ACA) family health plan cost me more than $300 a month, and that was the lowest available premium. That’s a weird kind of charity.

Are these knuckleheads aware that employers who don’t offer health bennies don’t attract employees? Employee benefits are good business sense, not charitable donations.

They’ve tried to compare it to things like an employee cafeteria or employee parking, saying the company provides such “free of charge,” and so health benefits are likewise something that the company provides to its workers. When you point out that employers provides those benefits in lieu of higher pay and you still have to pay premiums to use it, they shrug and say that if the company didn’t provide a cafeteria, the employee would have to pay for their own food anyway or some such shit.