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[flagged] Marvel Studios is moving from Georgia to the UK to avoid paying health insurance (usatoday.com)
13 points by speckx 83 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


What an oddly editorialized version of this headline which does not appear to reflect the conclusion made by the article OR the actual headline of the linked article:

actual headline:

> Is Marvel leaving Georgia? Production shifts to UK spark industry shakeup

piece talking about reasons:

> shifting to the United Kingdom, where lower production costs, especially on wages and employee benefits, are giving studios more bang for their buck, according to the Daily Mail.

looks like differences in wages AND benefits. Lower overall salaries in the UK combined with public healthcare costs via the NHS is a much more nuanced take than "leaving to avoid paying health insurance."

I suppose the conclusion though is the same - that a public option would have prevented this flight of capital. Not necessarily dropping of mandates that employers cover health insurance to remain competitive (which I'm sure some will conclude).


They'll probably offer their employees BUPA anyway (private health insurance available in the UK as a top-up to the NHS).


By moving to a country with universal healthcare, aren't they paying for all employees to have healthcare at a lower average annual per-capita cost?


It could be at a cost saving measure, it's not above a business to do such a thing to save a few pennies


Generate a visualization of healthcare spending by capita by country; with pandas dataframes and Manim Python

And generate an open game engine game to explore healthcare spending by capita by country; to teach the same. With e.g. UPGE (Blender), panda3d, harfang, mujoco_menagerie, Unity, or StageCraft; and then build it in WASM to work on a browser tab with the client GPU

/? per capita healthcare spending by country: https://www.google.com/search?q=per+capita+healthcare+spendi...

Also, the GBP and Euro are up on the USD since January 2025.


Actual headline is: "Is Marvel leaving Georgia? Production shifts to UK spark industry shakeup"


It would be interesting to see a breakdown on costs. Article is very light on details.


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> Another film filmed in Georgia, USA; with Martin Sheen: "Vigilantes, Inc." (2025) https://youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE

Apparently GA was 160 for 500 on invalidating voters in the 2024 election; the state tried to eliminate the votes of some 340,000 registered voters who veritably lived at the address they registered with the state.

The producers of the film asked the same people that verify identities for Amazon and Walmart to review their list of voter invalidations.

(All this after sleazy Slump Chump (ad hominem, name calling) pushed the governor of said state for votes in 2020.)

TIL slavery was actually already illegal in Georgia before the American Revolutionary war (in the late 1700s).

> Does this effect lag or lead that effect?


FWIW, in TN also, WB Discovery reduced from 344,000 sq ft of offices to 50,000 sqft after their 2022 merger.




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