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To: Osage Orange
Employers don't pay 100% of an employees’ health insurance. What about the cost to workers that are forced to have private or public health care insurance? Blue Cross in my state, Alabama, is approaching $400 per month for individual coverage. Folks earning minimum wage (set to go up Friday) can't afford half of this cost. How are they going to live?

I offered my employees insurance. Years ago, the majority turned me down when the cost to them would have been only $17 per week. (I was going to file an advance on earned income credit and utilize a cafeteria plan.) Why decline it? Because the emergency was free to them - so why should they pay anything. This will break them and me, their employer.

51 posted on 07/22/2009 5:31:56 PM PDT by Quilla
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To: Quilla

Yeah, I’m paying around $600 to cover my daughter and wife in Mississippi. Literally 1/4th of my pay. But I’d rather pay that than any state run care. The only country that has successful universal health care is Japan, and that’s because they never get sick.


56 posted on 07/22/2009 5:35:01 PM PDT by struggle ((The struggle continues))
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