You are banking on the wrong history. In the history of labor negotiations, the workers have always prioritized health insurance over higher wages.
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No, that’s not true at all. They get health insurance because companies can offer it without taxes. Therefore everyone is incentivized towards it.
So you and all of your so-called conservative capitalists are bowing at the alter of taxes as social policy.
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Ridiculous.
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C’mon man. Health insurance as an employee benefit would not exist if employees had not demanded and fought for it.
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Ridiculous 2
Perhaps you’d care to elaborate.
Yes there are, I worked for 2, my wife worked 31 years for one…yet he thinks that we can just go out and get the same or better coverage on our own.
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I’m not sure why people think an individual company setting up its own risk pool, creating a separate entity and creating a captive insurer changes the calculus in any way. Those captive insurers behave in the exact manner of a standard insurer, they just have a closed risk pool.
Company gets to writes off that cost whether it’s given in the form of a benefit or salary.
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It’s not just the odd one-off company that does this.
Oracle does it.
Yep, operating expenses are operating expenses … deductible from gross income.
That requires more than couple of words. 
Right - Company can provide it to employee without the employee paying taxes on it. Maybe the company should also offer a similar benefit for your local grocer? The airlines? Cars?
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Why not?? Maybe it’ll catch on.
They aren’t self-insuring employee healthcare, that’s not what that means.
“Self-insured” refers to business recovery.
It’s made up bull ■■■■ .
Verbosity is not an attribute in a man.
A couple of words is not better than two paragraphs of disjointed nonsense rife with misspellings?
Yes! It’ll be just like the company towns of the past. Labor nirvana!
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There are companies that self-insure their employees’ medical care. Many do so to avoid government requirements of what must (or must not) be covered by insurance. Some of them do carry a catastrophic insurance if an employee’s costs exceed some threshold (like a million bucks).
Not sure what you mean by “business recovery” unless you’re referring to that catastrophic policy.
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