Employer-provided health insurance is not some gift from benevolent feudal lords and ladies but *part of the worker's overall salary/wages plus benefits package. *When someone accepts an employment offer, that "someone" regards the whole compensation package as compensation. I would much prefer that health insurance be detached from employment altogether, but if that cannot be achieved we should not let ourselves be driven into a situation where *someone else* is expected to subsidize those salaries or wages because of religious scruples by the said feudal lords and ladies.
Meet Hobby Lobby, A Corporate Person with Religious Rights
Samuel Alito, a Justice in the Supreme Court of the United States handed American corporations nicely wrapped gifts this morning! One decision makes unionizing a little bit harder in the public sector. The less countervailing power workers have the better the life for the employers: Wages and benefits will stay lower and that's good for the profit motive! Another decision, the Hobby Lobby one, states that a for-profit firm is a person with religious rights, as long as it is a closely held corporation. Some ninety percent of corporations are closely held. Hobby Lobby has 23,000... more »
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