A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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If you want to hear a crazy story I used to get government health insurance for like $30 a month. Never wound up using it but it was good to have. Then Trump does some fucking idiot God damn bullshit and then they tell me oh hey your new premium is $400 a month and I said nope and I canceled it and now if something bad happens I will simply die.
My parents had to move away to somewhere more affordable to make ends meet because their health insurance was running them $2000 a month due to this piece of shit :(
Isn’t the insurer the one who defines the copay?
There were (maybe still are?) cost share reductions for some people. Maybe it's something to do with that?
If employers had their way, we'd all be "contractors".
We'd be working 12 hour days 7 days a week, being paid in company scrip.
There was a lot of violence in the 19th and early 20th century just to get the scraps we have now. Capital is your enemy.
Our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought company goons in hand to hand combat in the streets, to force corporations to accept Unions, which brought us EVERY workplace benefit, and EVERY health/safety/environmental regulation, that we enjoy today. Corporations have never given up a single benefit without a fight.
We need to go back to that, and unionize EVERYTHING.
For sure. But having your health insurance tied to your employer is one of the things that are fundamentally wrong with the US.
Exactly this. It started in WWII during a period of stabilized wages (i.e. federally enforced upper limits on wages to make things more fair for companies seeking labour) as a way of offering benefits to attract employees, but it would of course be cheaper for everyone if we switched over to universal healthcare. And actually cover everyone instead of leaving millions to die.
Companies ~~like Uber and Lyft~~ should NOT be allowed to treat their employees like dirt
FTFY