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minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoEmployer provided healthcare started as a benefit during WWII because it was a loophole around wage controls. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/why-is-health-care-expensive-wwii-wage-controls/
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI worded it badly. While it’s true that is when the process started, Nixon changed healthcare so that it could be for profit, which it wasn’t prior to that, thereby ensuring that healthcare and employment would permanently be tied together
Employer provided healthcare started as a benefit during WWII because it was a loophole around wage controls.
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/why-is-health-care-expensive-wwii-wage-controls/
I worded it badly. While it’s true that is when the process started, Nixon changed healthcare so that it could be for profit, which it wasn’t prior to that, thereby ensuring that healthcare and employment would permanently be tied together