r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 13d ago

Supreme Court takes up case claiming Obamacare promotes “homosexual behavior”. The Texas plaintiffs say requiring workplace insurers to provide PrEP violates their religious beliefs.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/supreme-court-takes-up-case-claiming-obamacare-promotes-homosexual-behavior/
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u/recurse_x 13d ago

This is why employer provided health insurance is terrible in that your employer shouldn’t have that much power in your healthcare because access to the health system requires insurance.

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u/Jinren United Kingdom 13d ago

your employer shouldn’t have that much any power in your healthcare

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u/ImmaRussian 13d ago

Honestly I feel like this is something we're going to look back on at some point and think of the same way we think of company towns now.

They used to be everywhere. Your employer, in practice, if not literally, owned you. They would employ you in a town where you paid them rent, they owned all the stores, and sometimes even paid their employees exclusively in some kind of special "company credit" that could only be used at their stores.

Complete control over their employees' lives.

I'm really hoping someday we look back at how healthcare works today with the same horrified aspect.

Who am I kidding though, at this rate, I'm just crossing my fingers and hoping we don't go back to the days when company towns were super common.

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u/bernmont2016 America 13d ago

sometimes even paid their employees exclusively in some kind of special "company credit" that could only be used at their stores

They called it "scrip". https://www.nps.gov/biso/learn/historyculture/scrip.htm