[quote=briansd1][quote=flu]
Actually, I was going to ask… Why do you think health plans are compensation?[/quote]

Benefits provided to you by your employer are compensation.

If benefits were not taxable, employers wouldn’t pay salaries anymore. They’d pay everything out in benefits (cars, rent, health insurance, life insurance, food, etc..).

Employers shift compensation to untaxable benefits whenever possible. It’s equates to paying the employees/executives more, at the expense of the IRS.[/quote]

If it is a benefit, how does one measure how much of it is used for which it to be taxable benefit “for the recipient of the benefit”?

If the “worth” of an insurance is determined by how much it costs, are you suggesting those for which a premium paid by an employer cost more has “more insurance” and hence should be taxed more than an insurance policy that “costs less”?

So if a company A does a shitty job negotiation an group insurance package with an insurance company and ends up having to pay a lot for providing the same medical coverage to employees that other employees at company B with identical coverage, you think, because it is a taxable benefit, that employees from company A should have to pay more for this benefit than company B, despite the health coverage otherwise being identical?