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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
This is a chicken or egg question. there are other retailers that provided health insurance. Many of them have gone out of business since shoppers go to the cheapest alternative. By going to the cheapest alternative they cause the store to cut what it can. You can't be the cheapest if you have to pay $15K in health insurance for unskilled jobs. I am not oblivious to the pain such an equation causes, but it's math- cold and hard.
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I agree that the problem is that consumers demand the lowest priced goods and the employers can deliver the lowest priced goods when they pay employees less and offer less benefits. This is why we need to make health insurance mandatory just like we make car insurance mandatory.
I wouldn't make it mandatory that an employer pay for it, though, because that creates a market flaw in that the ultimate consumer (the patient) is blinded to the price.
