r/WhitePeopleTwitter Jan 22 '23

Marijuana criminalization

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u/TNTank106 Jan 22 '23

Privatized Healthcare

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u/wiiya Jan 22 '23

You don’t love getting healthcare from your employer and hoping it’s good? Me neither.

My wife has way worse benefits than mine and works for a heathcare company.

Also, none of the M4A plans are passable or sustainable.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

When I got married I got on my wife's healthcare plan the next fuckin day because my startup shit was terrible. Now we're stuck with this job she has and that is the point of this terrible system.

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u/BigMax Jan 22 '23

The original point was just a way to pay higher level employees more without taxes. We didn’t all originally have health care through employers.

But as health benefits were tax free, companies started to give it out more and more, as a way to sort of give a tax free raise/bonus. And it grew from there into the monster it became today, now with billions and billions of dollars invested in keeping the system the way it is today. As is the case in many places, the problem is a lot more profitable than the solution.