Quite by accident, when last week we were doing a little research on the activities of the Prosus investment fund (see here), we discovered an interesting fact. Prosus is an investor in the insurance company Onsi, which specializes in insurance plans for corporate employees who are not their employees.
This concerns a situation where, through “tax optimization,” employees (in corporate language called “subcontractors”) are not paid insurance premiums in the public health system. Which is exactly how it is in almost all Delivery Platforms.
But because corporations care about their image, they boast that they offer employees alternative, corporate insurance systems, along with a whole mechanism limiting access to full healthcare (but they do not brag about the latter).
And here is an interesting fact: the Prosus Fund owns several Delivery platforms. And also the aforementioned Onsi. But Onsi does not mind, and even insures employees of the Wolt and Deliveroo platforms.
So it looks like this is not a coincidence: Platforms do not want and will not pay us contributions to the public health system. And instead they will offer us some crappy private health insurance, completely disregarding our lives and health. And this is a deliberate action by the owners of these Platforms.