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Bloomberg News
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Too many small enterprises are forced to choose between covering their employees’ medical care and staying afloat. It shouldn’t be this way (via Bloomberg Opinion)

bloom.bgHealthcare Costs Have Small Businesses in an Impossible BindThe healthcare affordability crisis is crushing everyone, but it has become downright calamitous for small businesses. Survey after survey after survey shows that employers expect healthcare costs to rise nearly 10% on average in 2027, a figure that could be twice as high for small firms.

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Shawk
@shawk.bsky.social

Let’s remember Employer-based Healthcare Benefits came from wage controls in WW2. Then Congress confirmed the benefits were not taxable. Time to reverse this?

Rod Dusi
@roddusi.bsky.social

Their employees and their own! For-profit healthcare insurance as the gateway to healthcare in America is a market fail. Yet it is so entrenched it seems unAmerican to argue against it!

Maggie's Farm
@slowdog.bsky.social

Employee-sponsored health insurance is a brilliant system because it makes Americans stay in their shitty jobs. How many times I've heard, "I fucking hate it but we need the health insurance."

DBerl0909
@dberl.bsky.social

Medicare for all. Coverage of services & fees already set for 65+ & disabled. Fee schedule for others can be adjusted based on age/income (like Obamacare). CMS can be expanded to handle claims & oversight while eliminating costs of ins co middlemen & businesses. Insurance follows you, not ur job.