http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/ The Unpredictable Union of Pragmatism, Idealism, and Cynicism Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:12:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1729 Rocket City Bloggers Highlights : “7.62mm Justice” ™ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 14:41:43 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1729 [...] Flashpoint has the flip side of Gov. Riley’s Health Insurance tax break. [...] [...] Flashpoint has the flip side of Gov. Riley’s Health Insurance tax break. [...]

]]> http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1582 Brian Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:12:28 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1582 Interesting. They say you should learn something new everyday. I've now met my quota. Maybe I should call it a day. Interesting. They say you should learn something new everyday. I’ve now met my quota. Maybe I should call it a day.

]]> http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1555 Don Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:19:48 +0000 http://www.flashpointblog.com/2007/04/02/the-flip-side-of-rileys-health-insurance-tax-break/#comment-1555 Brian, this may only be the imaginings of an old man, but it seems to me that employer-provided health care only took hold in a significant way during WWII when wages were frozen by the Feds, so employers began to start these health plans for to attract skilled employees who were in short supply because so many able-bodied men and women were serving in the military and working in defense plants. Over the years since then it has grown like kudzu, which we know was a bad weed to plant after the fact. Brian, this may only be the imaginings of an old man, but it seems to me that employer-provided health care only took hold in a significant way during WWII when wages were frozen by the Feds, so employers began to start these health plans for to attract skilled employees who were in short supply because so many able-bodied men and women were serving in the military and working in defense plants. Over the years since then it has grown like kudzu, which we know was a bad weed to plant after the fact.

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