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by samworm 4621 days ago
"Now, you can still do some of those tricks, but not as extensively." The language in this blog post make it pretty clear that this isn't a company you want to work for. Stop trying to nickel and dime your employees. Provide good affordable health care for everyone from the CEO down to the cleaner. Be a socially responsible entity. Make that one of the pillars of your business. Success without it isn't success at all.
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I didn't get that at all. I think you're bringing some bias to it - I can't wrap my head around how else you would have come away with that sentiment. Either that or you didn't really read it. Let me do the whole paragraph:

In the past, you could sometimes defer some of your healthcare costs by offering only high-deductible plans. You could offer policy choices with higher copays. You could even incentivize employees to drop coverage altogether.

Is any of that untrue, or bad for a company to do? Absolutely not. If I say to an employee, "Which would you rather have - a $70,000 salary with a $5,000 deductible health plan, or a $60,000 salary with a no deductible plan?", which one will they choose? Hell if I know in advance - that's up to each employee. I've offered them the same basic thing and let them choose what fits them the best. I fail to see how that's "bad".

Get off your high horse.