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by thatswrong0 3161 days ago
A couple of pieces of legislation in the 1940s and 1950s had the effect of encouraging companies to offer health benefits in lieu of others forms of compensation. Seems to have just snowballed from there.
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That doesn't make it right.
We're working on getting it fixed. Pardon our dust.
No one said it did, the question was why was it this way. This person explained.