Why your boss is dumping your wife

dungone · 2013-08-23T14:55:36+00:00

Whatever political biases everyone may have aside, this is a step in the right direction for the MRM and working men.

The really absurd thing about it is that these companies are only dropping wives who could get their own health insurance from their own employers. They should drop coverage for all wives. The article makes it sound as if this is some sort of a loss for the working public, but I disagree.

However it is that women's medical needs are met, the current way was never the right answer for two major reasons. The first is that single men and working women shouldn't have to subsidize the medical costs of their coworkers' wives in order to work for a great company. Secondly, for married employees it effectively creates a form of wage slavery - they cannot advance their careers and switch jobs without weighing the medical needs of their wives. It's often the reason why many talented men I've come across couldn't work for a start up, start their own business, or otherwise go to a company that actually pays their workers fairly and refuses to subsidize stay-at-home wives.

999papercranes · 2013-08-23T15:28:33+00:00

I don't think I'll be lauding companies' decisions to cut back on employee benefits to save money.

2013-08-24T07:42:37+00:00

I want my wife to have the best health insurance at the lowest rate possible. If she were to continue getting it through my health plan, I'm obviously paying her premium. If she gets it through a public exchange, I'm still paying her premium. Yes, other employees are paying in part to subsidize her health care costs. Is that really any different than having other people pay to subsidize her health care costs? I don't really see this as men's rights issue. I see this as a corporations looking to save money issue.

Here in Minnesota, if my employer were to drop my wife she'd likely have to end up being insured through the coming public exchange. It's likely going to end up being more expensive given that our household income is way too far above the poverty level.

I understand that some employees who are men might not like having to subsidize costs associated with female healthcare, but so what? I don't like subsidizing the cost of fat people. The nature of insurance is to minimize individual risk. Want to charge women of various age groups more money? I'd be okay with that. Same as I'm okay with charging smokers more. Same as I'd be okay with charging obese people more.

Aaod · 2013-08-23T15:30:39+00:00

Honestly this is pretty sad, not a good way to encourage people to get married.

lilburrito · 2013-08-23T15:05:07+00:00

This has nothing to do with Mens' Rights. Spouses can be male, too. What's next, dumping the kids off the insurance plans?

Title	Why your boss is dumping your wife
Author	dungone
Upvotes	0
Comments	16
Date	August 23, 2013 2:33 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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