linky has some other examples, its gen-xers getting fucked mainly
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This is a lose-lose for basically everyone except insurance and finance big wigs. Even most business are severely negatively impacted by this sort of thing, as it drives up the cost of labor just so the money can be siphoned off to the bank account of 1 of 3 insurance monopolies. Same as with rapidly increasing real estate costs - businesses are renters and so are most people you employ.
Enjoining petty bourgeois interests with fascistic false consciousness is probably the most important level of concerted social control for US capital. Even more than the workers themselves, since since capitalism inherently does that.
Even the insurance companies are losing in this. The expiration of tax premiums will mean that millions of healthy working-age Americans will be forced to drop their health care- and that is the demographic that subsidizes the high costs of elderly end-of-life care. They're gonna have to squeeze the remaining members even harder to keep the same profits. The real beneficiaries are the the vultures that divert federal funds allocated from the ACA to themselves under this crony Trump administration.
Great point!