Posted on 02/08/2017 1:18:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
During the Sanders-Cruz debate on the future of Obamacare, A small business from Texas confronted Bernie Sanders about exploding health care costs under Obamacare, telling him she simply can’t afford to provide insurance for all of her employees.
During CNN's Ted Cruz-Bernie Sanders debate on Tuesday, the business owner, who operates several hair salons in Texas, asked Sanders how she can comply with Obamacare without passing on costs to customers or lowering her employees’ wages. She said she has just under 50 employees.
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“Let me give you an answer you will not be happy with,” Sanders replied. “I think that businesses that employ 50 people or more… I’m sorry, I think that in America today, everybody should have health care. And if you have more than 50 people, you know what, I’m afraid to tell you, I think you will have to provide health insurance.”
The business owner quickly shot back:
“So my question is how do I do that without raising my prices to my customers or lowing the wages to my employees?”
Sanders went on to argue that it's “unfair” that there might be “somebody else in Fort Worth who is providing decent health insurance to their employees,” but they have to compete with her business that doesn't provide an employer-based health care plan.
“I think you’ll find the profit margin in my entire industry about the same," the business owner replied.
The reactions to the exchange were harsh:
To be fair, Sanders ultimately conceded that he doesn't know much about hair salons in Fort Worth, Texas.
It’s pretty hard for me to listen to Bernie lecture a business owner.Bernie was a bum who got married and brought his new bride back to a dirt floor shack to call home.
How does a guy who never had a job become an expert at business or (fill in the blank)?
Answer: Get elected.
Well, Marx let his own children starve so he and Sanders are two of a kind. They tell other people how they must live while ignoring or being insensitive to anyone’s needs but their own.
Karl Marx hated the petit bourgeoisie with a passion. They tend to be a conservative bunch. Hard working and religious. Marx couldn't stand them. He hated them more than the "ruling class" because the petit bourgeoisie aspired to be wealthier, to succeed, to climb that economic ladder. To Marx, that was dangerous to the proletariat gaining strength and confidence to overthrow the "ruling class".
I saw this exchange, Sanders is an ass! He doesn’t care about people like her!
Eventually, you run out of other peoples’ money to give away.
What do you expect from a washed up old commie life failure?
Surely it is not sanity!
Go out of business?? To small to succeed...
So here you have Sanders, a worthless, lazy Socialist, don’t forget he was kicked out of a commune for not doing anything,who never had a real job, run any kind of business, tell this poor woman for all intents and purposes to just close up and go out of business.
What a Total ASS. This is the real problem, politicians who have never done anything telling people how to run a business. This is the reason we are in real trouble on Health Care and it’s costs.
Well, it was mighty nice of him to give her that option.
Under Directive 10-289, it was forbidden to close a business just because it couldn't even survive, much less profit, due to Federal Government regulations.
Bernie is apparently a consistent socialist.
Of course he doesnt employ anyone. Or ever has.
Socialists are leeches on productive society.
I remember years ago when Hillary said if a business couldn’t provide health insurance it should not be in business.
I watched that exchange. Bernie failed.
How about getting the government out of the health care business?
Return the medical care and the insurance to the private market where it belongs. Additionally, reduce or eliminate many of the ridiculous subsidies, thus further reducing bureaucracy and paperwork costs.
Many medications and routine office visits should be paid for out of pocket, and billing rules need to be tightened up considerably.
A bottle of ibuprofen covered by insurance costs 5x the OTC cost. Why? Because it can.
Medicaid gets billed for 5 office visits, when all 5 procedures easily could have been done in one visit.
Anytime you have government involved, you are forced to pay salaries, operational, and paperwork costs for a whole multi-level layer of bureaucrats between the service you are providing, and the user of that service. Plus, you are inviting massive fraud.
I’m honestly surprised, as a small biz owner, she didn’t retort back two-fold:
1) Easy to say, but it’s not *YOUR* $$ used for these mandates
2) What *ELSE* should an employer be forced to provide for their employees? Car insurance, home mortgages, child-care, etc.?
Course, I would add ‘old faithful’: After what % of my life’s work, that govt confiscates for another, does slavery begin?
Misnomer. If you are required to *share* XYZ, you never *OWNED* XYZ.
Bernie's kind of people...
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