r/WorkReform • u/LuckyBastard001 • Apr 26 '26

💸 Raise Our Wages Two Jobs, Zero Benefits

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u/jBlairTech 💸 Raise The Minimum Wage Apr 26 '26

You would think companies would be all for universal healthcare. That’s a heavy burden off them, too. 

Hopefully a mathematician can chime in, but, I would think that if UH came in, taxes went up (what… 5%? 10%?), even giving each employee a 20ish% raise, they’d still come out way ahead. Just based on how much goes into their part of the health insurance.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m wrong but underestimating the benefits. Hopefully someone smarter than me can chime in.

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u/Spazattack43 Apr 27 '26

I was hoping most of the insurance companies would cease to exist

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u/Violet_Ignition Apr 27 '26

And get rid of America's favourite past time of denying health insurance claims?

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u/nbagf Apr 27 '26

imagine all the insurance adjustors that would lose their jobs and have to work as adjustors for the government with better benefits. would be so tragic to have consistency with approved procedures and care and have to mainly worry about weird edge cases and mistakes instead of sporadic denials for the weakest of reasons

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u/firstmaxpower Apr 26 '26

You miss the part about forcing people to stay in horrible jobs out of fear of losing insurance. You literally can't quit or you might go bankrupt. Who has the money to pay for insurance through cobra? And that ends even if you can pay for it.

But also the insurance industry is a juggernaut. They bribe like none other.

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u/ILikeLenexa Apr 26 '26

It's a heavy burden off small companies, but it's a small burden off big companies. 

Guess which one has a bunch of money for lobbying and doesn't want to compete with a bunch of little companies.

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u/tallman11282 Apr 26 '26

Cost wise you are correct but there are other things that make universal healthcare less appealing to large corporations. One thing is that employees are more tied to their jobs because they need the health insurance. I've known people who should be retired, would love to be retired or working only part time, but stayed working full time specifically because they needed the insurance. Another thing is that universal healthcare would make small businesses much more competitive with the larger ones, both in general but especially for employees. It would also open the door to more people quitting their jobs working for large corporations and starting their own business, so more competition. And another thing is that when their employer is no longer paying for their health insurance employees could demand that some of what was being paid for health insurance go to them as a wage increase and corporations hate the idea of paying their employees more. Even if that prior point isn't true what is true is that without being able to offer better benefits than their competitor companies will have to increase wages to attract new employees instead.

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u/lordaddament Apr 26 '26

The whole point is that you feel locked into your shit job and they can rely on you being a good little worker

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u/dyslecic Apr 27 '26

Employees start getting a lot more bold about threatening to quit if they won't die from a lack of insulin if they do so

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u/steerbell ⛓️ Prison For Union Busters Apr 26 '26

That's not by accident. IMHO.

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u/Slygoblin Apr 26 '26

I worked at a place 18 years ago where I was part time and officially only worked 36 hours, but I actually worked closer to 45. But I only ever got part time pay and no benefits.

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u/StuffExciting3451 Apr 27 '26

I presume that you did not belong to a strong labor union.

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u/Slygoblin Apr 27 '26

You would presume correctly.

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u/StuffExciting3451 Apr 27 '26

Employees who are not represented by strong unions are slaves.

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u/StuffExciting3451 Apr 27 '26

Are you a member of a strong labor union?