[enragedcacti]

There are laws against providing different tiers for some benefits (I'm pretty certain healthcare is one). So if Google were to hire them, it has to decide if its worth lowering the standard of healthcare for their six-figure engineers or giving these datacenter employees a really expensive healthcare plan.

[TheCoelacanth]

So yet another case of the US's brain-dead healthcare system ruining everything.

We desperately need to sever the link between employers and healthcare.

[username90]

I didn't know that, why do USA try to make companies take the role of a government, except that they can fire you?

[gnopgnip]

They don't make anyone take the role of a government. The US government gives tax breaks for certain benefits available to all employees. If the benefits are only available to certain employees, the company loses those tax benefits.

Would it be fair for another company to get a tax deduction for paid meals, 100% employer paid healthcare just to the executives while everyone else has to pay to eat in the cafeteria and pay for their own healthcare?