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This editorial needs responses. Alistair the Socialist can be contacted by email at: ahighet@hartfordadvocate.com
1 posted on 11/03/2005 5:33:05 AM PST by TaxRelief
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To: TaxRelief

Why would any employer want to hire people who are prone to sickness or injury?


2 posted on 11/03/2005 5:35:43 AM PST by linkinpunk
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To: TaxRelief
IMHO, Health insurance is the biggest single contributing cause to the cost of our health care. You go to the doc, and don't have to pay. Then, when someone questions why they gave you an MRI for your head cold, they can say "it isn't costing you anything!"


4 posted on 11/03/2005 5:39:51 AM PST by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: TaxRelief
...and yet on more than five occassions in the last 100 years, this country has considered universal health-care, and walked away

Ah, the only way it could get more socialist than the heavily exploited shell game that it already is.

10 posted on 11/03/2005 5:44:02 AM PST by Theophilus (Save Little Democrats, Stop Abortion)
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To: TaxRelief

I would expect any company doing business with the public to do whatever it could to keep sick people away from customers, and each other.


13 posted on 11/03/2005 5:54:57 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
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To: TaxRelief
Read the entire article and it is nothing but propaganda for Socialized medicine...fired off a wee bit of a letter to the doofus.
14 posted on 11/03/2005 6:00:06 AM PST by socialismisinsidious (Liberals are all about choice UNTIL you choose differently than them.)
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To: TaxRelief

My husband is covered under my family policy at work. Two years ago my parent company requested his life time medical records. I was told they were considering a new insurance company and needed to see information on his cancer prognosis and treatment. I was the only one in our office of 30 people to be required to do this - also the only one with a covered person having a serious disease. I called my lawyer thinking they had violated my privacy by looking at my Dr. bills to know he had cancer and that I surely couldn't be required to give them more than 50 years of his medical files. I was told I didn't have to give them the records but that to be realistic, if I didn't, they would find a way to get rid of me. I compromised and gave only the records since the onset of his cancer. Still tics me off.


25 posted on 11/03/2005 6:35:51 AM PST by Garden Mama
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Why have health care provided by a company at all? There is only one reason: Because, having hired and trained a worker, it is helpful to the company if that worker stays healthy and shows up for work.

So, if the only reason to provide health care is to keep your workers healthy, why wouldn't you start by hiring people that will stay healthy?


26 posted on 11/03/2005 6:42:23 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: TaxRelief

In my experience, bad health or medical problems is NOT a good filter. The majority of the chronically absent are absent for headaches, colds, hangovers, or just plain don't-feel-like-it.


28 posted on 11/03/2005 6:46:34 AM PST by Seamoth
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To: TaxRelief
We are responsible for keeping ourselves as healthy as possible.

It should not be wrong for an employer to seek healthier people by design.

We are a society of pill-takers. Get over it and start taking care of yourselves so you don't have a concern later!
57 posted on 11/05/2005 2:07:55 PM PST by ConservativeMind
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Socialist are idiots. They are losing. Now they have to attack companies because they have such a hard time attacking governments.


59 posted on 11/05/2005 2:14:45 PM PST by Porterville (Pray for War- Spanish by birth, American by the Grace of God!!!)
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To: TaxRelief

The sounds like they want people to use their sick leave rather than come in and spread their germs.


60 posted on 11/10/2005 11:19:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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