New Research Shows 30 Percent Of Employers Will Drop Healthcare Coverage After Reform

houtx48

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But it's still OK for Apple to drown in its own cash and slap extraordinarily high markups on gadgets it manufactures outside the US, right?

Apple makes coolstuff...

...whereas Evil Big Pharma corporations are in the lowly business of saving lives (and keeping your dick hard).


It not going to happen so what difference does it make?
 
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Companies are under no obligation to provide any benefits only a pay check for for a service preformed.

Yes they are for the unionized workforce out there where in the contract benefits are cleary spelled out
 

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Companies are under no obligation to provide any benefits only a pay check for for a service preformed.
In many cases, this is true (union contracts being the major exception); however, it can be argued that it is in the self-interest of the company to ensure that its employees are in good health: When employees are chronically ill - because they don't have and can't afford health coverage - productivity takes a major hit, and if the workforce in general is chronically ill, replacing the "underperforming" employees won't work either, because the replacements are dealing with the same issues.

The solution to a chronically ill workforce is either to provide affordable group benefits (which spread the risks and costs over all of your employees), or to pay your employees enough that they can purchase their own coverage (or pay their own expenses) at market cost. Or you can pay taxes to support a public health plan, which has the advantage of covering everybody (maximum dilution of risk and cost) as well as being not-for-profit (no need to charge more than is necessary to cover outlays and basic overhead).

Then again, there's always outsourcing your labor to countries with surplus populations - such as India and China - so that when chronic illnesses render one set of workers unproductive, there will be plenty of other warm bodies to fill the positions so that the high turnover won't be a problem. While it could be argued that this option is immoral in so many ways, what's a little immorality when the profit margins are so high?
 

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In a way all of this is inevitable. Most Americans want goods and services to be really, really, really cheap so the production of goods and sevices has moved to the third world. Now we're in stiff competition with the third world and yes, most of the third world is hot flat and crowded.

Meh, you have your causation backwards. People didn't drive production offshore, companies seeking higher profit margins did that. That, in turn, has depressed wages.
 

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What I find mind-blowing about the US health care system is the fact that after a person achieves the age of 62 almost every medical expense imaginable is picked up by the federal government. It's like the best deal ever.
 
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What I find mind-blowing about the US health care system is the fact that after a person achieves the age of 62 almost every medical expense imaginable is picked up by the federal government. It's like the best deal ever.

Can you imagine? And children go to school for 12 years and the expense is picked up by the government. In many countries parents have to pay to get their children through grade school. Another good deal. And if you call 911 the fire department puts your fire out and you don't get a bill for it as you do in some countries.
 

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My health insurance cost form work was $15.00 a week last year now it is $17.00 a week.

i am sure no one feels bad for me paying $2.00 more a week.
 

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My health insurance cost form work was $15.00 a week last year now it is $17.00 a week.

i am sure no one feels bad for me paying $2.00 more a week.

You pay $68 per month for health care??? And what does your company pay as a supplement to this??