There’s something more weird about tying healthcare to employment. In fact, it’s largely an accident of history: > In 1943 the War Labor Board, which had one y

There’s something more weird about tying healthcare to employment. In fact, it’s largely an accident of history: > In 1943 the War Labor Board, which had one year earlier introduced wage and price controls, ruled that contributions to insurance and pension funds did not count as wages. In a war economy with labor shortages, employer contributions for employee health benefits became a means of maneuvering around wage controls. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/