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 Geraldo Rivera Slaps Trump Supporters With A Reality Check After Biden’s Pardon | HuffPost Latest News

Donald Trump didn’t win by a historic landslide. It’s time to nip that lie in the bud | Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian

‘He is one of us!’: US anti-vaxxers rejoice at nomination of David Weldon for CDC | Trump administration | The Guardian

Florida Introduces Bill to Ban 'Weather Modification' - Newsweek

“Grey content”: how mainstream journalism accidentally fueled Covid vaccine hesitancy - The Skeptic

Upcoming Supreme Court decision could transform transgender health care

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US | AP News

In Alaska, a pilot drops turkeys to rural homes for Thanksgiving | AP News


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Winter wiorkowski

Do you know why health insurance came about? I’ve been trying to trace it down - I know it was the early 80s … It was Reagan wasn’t it? I bet it was …

Haeley Curry

This is Tom “This all changed in 1943, thanks to a decision by the War Labor Board, which declared benefits (like health insurance) that employers provide for their employees do not count as “wages.” This is significant because there were government-imposed wage caps, and price caps on nearly everything, in an attempt to stave off wartime inflation. During World War II, the labor market was tight and companies – desperate to keep production moving for the war effort and everyday civilian needs – competed for workers but couldn’t raise wages to help their recruitment efforts. But if health insurance wasn’t considered “wages,” voila! “ “Employers began offering health insurance plans to give workers extra money in their pockets without raising wages (and breaking laws). This, combined with a growing number of unionized employees and new, favorable tax laws that made employer-sponsored healthcare non-taxable, made the 1940s and 1950s a period of extreme growth for health insurance. By 1960, over 68 percent of the U.S. population was estimated to have some form of private health insurance: an astronomical growth from the 1940 numbers.” https://agentsync.io/blog/loa/the-history-of-health-insurance-past-present-and-future

Winter wiorkowski

Wow! Thank you! My Dad had told me about insurance being used to recruit workers - but I didn’t know the rest of it - it goes back so much further than I thought!

Ana Aguilera

I agree about getting rid of subscriptions with bad journalism. Any online new sources that you would recommend that provides news and real journalism?

TreeHuggerPestControl.com

I've been watching the NHK English channel on Youtube for some truly professional journalism. I also use an ad-blocker for American and British news, and if they ask me to turn it off, I leave immediately. As for social media, Twitter and Facebook are full of BS, but Metafilter is still around, and they post quality links to current news stories.