Sure, but the doctors/medicine/hospitals/liability are not any cheaper.

So the healthcare isn’t cheap, but the employer is able to gain more control over their employees by tying a piece of their non employee life to the employer creating more friction to prevent people from shopping for jobs with higher pay, and the employee is getting a small tax benefit.

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jjmarr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, but the same insurance company will screw with your coverage depending on your employer.

My mom's plan randomly denied my medications all the time as a student. My current job's plan always provides coverage.

Both were the same insurance company, but she's in a different field with a more stingy employer.

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jswelker an hour ago | parent [-]

It's especially fun if your employer is in a field with an aging employee population--like higher ed ironically. The insurer gives the same premium rate to all employees, meaning everyone is in the same risk pool. The old and or unhealthy employees make insurance more expensive for everyone at the employer. I've had situations where the exact same insurance plan cost two hugely different amounts of money after switching employers just because of average employee age differences. Really quite perverse.

	▲	Mountain_Skies 30 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Which gives employers incentive to illegally discriminate against older job candidates but good luck proving it at any specific employer.