It works for some.   An acquaintance of mine was extolling the virtues of it to me a couple of months ago.    Married, three kids, not check to check but not rolling in dough either, home owner, affordable cars.   Wife works 20-25 hours a week as a receptionist or something.   He told me how he pays the same for his insurance but gets a $1200 subsidy now.  I assumed similar insurance.  But the thing that annoyed me, and I referenced it earlier, is that they were weighing the benefits of the wife quiting, to save on child care expense for the youngest, and getting a higher insurance subsidy due to lower household income.

Again, maybe a woman not working in order to care for her child might outweigh the additional tax burden shared by Americans in the long run but these subsidies come at a cost.  They aren't "free money". 

Posted by bad_luck on 10/16/2014 1:54:00 PM (view original):
That's kind of the point of the safety net systems. Providing unemployment keeps overqualified people from accepting jobs flipping burgers and further driving down wages.

And, again, you're ignoring the fact that health insurance premiums have always been subsidized.

Posted by examinerebb on 10/16/2014 2:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 10/16/2014 1:54:00 PM (view original):
That's kind of the point of the safety net systems. Providing unemployment keeps overqualified people from accepting jobs flipping burgers and further driving down wages.

And, again, you're ignoring the fact that health insurance premiums have always been subsidized.

Overqualified people flipping burgers does not drive down wages.  That is a fallacy.

The wages for the burger-flipper are burger-flipper wages, regardless of how qualified the person is who is doing the flipping.  I can't imagine you'd argue that you can pay an over-qualified person less to flip burgers than you can someone who is less qualified.  So no driving down of wages for that job.

The job said over-qualified to be a burger-flipper person lost no longer exists.  That is zero wage.  If that industry creates more of those jobs at a later date, the pay for those jobs is unaffected by whether said person took a job as a burger-flipper or chose to stay unemployed in the interim.

Posted by examinerebb on 10/16/2014 2:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 10/16/2014 1:54:00 PM (view original):
That's kind of the point of the safety net systems. Providing unemployment keeps overqualified people from accepting jobs flipping burgers and further driving down wages.

And, again, you're ignoring the fact that health insurance premiums have always been subsidized.

Overqualified people flipping burgers does not drive down wages.  That is a fallacy.

The wages for the burger-flipper are burger-flipper wages, regardless of how qualified the person is who is doing the flipping.  I can't imagine you'd argue that you can pay an over-qualified person less to flip burgers than you can someone who is less qualified.  So no driving down of wages for that job.

The job said over-qualified to be a burger-flipper person lost no longer exists.  That is zero wage.  If that industry creates more of those jobs at a later date, the pay for those jobs is unaffected by whether said person took a job as a burger-flipper or chose to stay unemployed in the interim.

Posted by MikeT23 on 10/16/2014 3:33:00 PM (view original):

Posted by examinerebb on 10/16/2014 2:55:00 PM (view original):

Posted by bad_luck on 10/16/2014 1:54:00 PM (view original):
That's kind of the point of the safety net systems. Providing unemployment keeps overqualified people from accepting jobs flipping burgers and further driving down wages.

And, again, you're ignoring the fact that health insurance premiums have always been subsidized.

Overqualified people flipping burgers does not drive down wages.  That is a fallacy.

The wages for the burger-flipper are burger-flipper wages, regardless of how qualified the person is who is doing the flipping.  I can't imagine you'd argue that you can pay an over-qualified person less to flip burgers than you can someone who is less qualified.  So no driving down of wages for that job.

The job said over-qualified to be a burger-flipper person lost no longer exists.  That is zero wage.  If that industry creates more of those jobs at a later date, the pay for those jobs is unaffected by whether said person took a job as a burger-flipper or chose to stay unemployed in the interim.

I'm not sure why we're even talking about overqualified people.  

1.  A microbiologist isn't going to accept a job flipping burgers.
2.  McD's isn't going to hire a microbiologist to flip burgers.
3.  Chances are someone in the field of microbiology isn't going to be able to utilize a $180 a week "safety net".

The entire post about overqualified people flipping burgers makes no sense.

Oh, that's right, more of BL's nonsense.    More confirmation that blocking him was the right call.