Why Do Employers Provide Health Insurance?
Once the concept of compensating differentials is understood, we can immediately see the conditions necessary for employers to offer health insurance to their workers. First, employees must value the health insurance. If employees do not value the coverage, they will not consider it a form of workers compensation and will only see that their wages are lower. Theoretically, these workers would quit and take a similar job offered by employers that provided higher wages and no health insurance. (more…)





