Great, do health insurance companies now, with their “vertical integration” (we own all the things you need, so fuck you).
Let’s unbundle health insurance from your employer. You shouldn’t be tied to a shitty job just so you can go to a doctor.
But then how can the owner class trap workers into abusive jobs while also ensuring no one has the audacity to start their own company and become financially independent? Won’t someone think of the shareholders?
Leave your job and lose your insurance. Everything is 100x cheaper that way. Doctors charge very little for cash paying customers. Emergency rooms and urgent cares just write off most of it to charity and charge you a bit if anything at all. The most I’ve paid for is lab work, but that’s a few and far between and still only like 500 bucks for a full panel.
YMMV. I’ve been doing this for three years and have paid less in TOTAL than private insurance wants for ONE MONTH.
The problem with this is if you have any actual significant health condition.
Yeah for sure. I think the right play is to have accident, hospital, and critical illness insurance from someplace like Aflac to cover those.
And how pray tell, are you paying for that without a job?
I still work. I just don’t play the health insurance coverage game.
Personally I own my own business, an LLC taxed as an S-Corp, and do software dev work through that paying myself a minimal W-2 wage.
But my point is that you can leave a job without worrying about losing health insurance coverage.
That’s a pretty privileged take. If someone leaves or gets fired they still need to pay for health insurance either on the public market or using COBRA. All of this is due to the fact that health insurance is directly tied to employment as it isn’t funded by taxes.
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/savings-account-average-balance/
It’s been fun w Lina Khan @ the helm. gonna miss seeing the FTC make moves on corpos. (_*)
Alright I’ve been staring at it too long - what’s that emoji?
Two eyes, mouth, and the asterisk is a flower or sparkle or something.
Also that’s kaomoji.
Any probe against a monopoly is a good thing
Bill Gates about to get extremely friendly with the Trump Administration.
The dickhead you’re looking for is now called Satya Nadella.
does he still have much to do with Microsoft?
He owns 1% of all Microsoft shares which are worth tens of billions.
- The year of the Linux laptop
Microsoft? Anti-Trust bundling violations? What year is this?? 1996‽
I WISH it were 1996!!!
…please take me back to the 90s…I don’t like being old.
Oooh, nice interrobang.
Didn’t know that character existed. Definitely going in the rotation.
Really‽
I support most of what Lena Khan has done, but this is stupid. Cybersecurity features should be built into the base package of all cloud products. The fact that so many charge extra for them is and always has been bullshit. It’s like trying to sell a car but charging extra to include seat belts and air bags.
The complaint should be that they’re selling a product that is unsafe in its base offering.
What about having to switch from a $32/user/month license to a $52/user/month license for just one or two features out of the dozens you end up paying for?
