Not necessarily. The whole rather absurd U.S. institution of employer-paid health insurance is an artifact of various government-imposed incentives whose roots range back to WW2-era wage controls. The employers are artificially incentivized to pay a part of the wages in medical benefits instead of cash—and if the employees value spurious medicine, there is no good reason for the employers to argue with their misconceptions. They’d happily pay part of the wages in astrological benefits if there was a comparable demand and regulatory incentive structure.
Of course, the employers would like to limit their overall expenses on medical benefits, but it’s far from clear that questioning the effectiveness of medicine is a practical way to do so, especially since it’s a strong social taboo. The idea of philistine and profiteering capitalists questioning the opinion of the wise and noble medical profession sounds blasphemous to the modern public opinion, and this could result in many bad consequences for the former.
Not necessarily. The whole rather absurd U.S. institution of employer-paid health insurance is an artifact of various government-imposed incentives whose roots range back to WW2-era wage controls. The employers are artificially incentivized to pay a part of the wages in medical benefits instead of cash—and if the employees value spurious medicine, there is no good reason for the employers to argue with their misconceptions. They’d happily pay part of the wages in astrological benefits if there was a comparable demand and regulatory incentive structure.
Of course, the employers would like to limit their overall expenses on medical benefits, but it’s far from clear that questioning the effectiveness of medicine is a practical way to do so, especially since it’s a strong social taboo. The idea of philistine and profiteering capitalists questioning the opinion of the wise and noble medical profession sounds blasphemous to the modern public opinion, and this could result in many bad consequences for the former.