RT @herosnvrdie69@twitter.com
Americans healthcare is tied to our employers because our health only matters if we are making someone else money.
@wjmaggos Actually it's because the government put salary caps on positions during ww2 so in order to compete for workers businesses started offering non-salary benefits like healthcare
that explains why it started but not why it remains so.
I think the tweet makes a great point about our culture, that we have a weird value system where our worth is very much tied into capitalism. that while every other advanced nation has adopted a universal system over time and polls show most people here support such a change, at some level we seem to accept that the inherent value of our lives disappears once we're not providing the economic value we should be capable of.
