They think they can get a lot of milage out of casting these companies as cruel and heartless and only concerned about profit rather than the lives of the retirees who worked so long and hard to make the company prosperous.
I predict that along with the honchos at these companies, there will be panels of retirees offering sob story after sob story about how this is action is going to ruin their lives and the lives of their families because they won’t be able to get or afford the necessary treatment.
The sob stories are what we’ll see night after night on the DBM. We won’t see the case being made about how Ovomitcare is forcing them to make the choices of either continuing to pay exorbitant health care costs, lay off employees or close their business. The rational arguments will lose to the emotional human element. Democrats are expecting this and will have a steady parade of victims out there to tug on heart strings.
alas, you have nailed it, randita.
We all will have to make our own phones, tractors, steel, etc out back in the dark of night, using scrap from the junk yard. Then the .gov will tax us for doing so, and jail us for not paying into a health care plan.
They will also tax us for the turnips we grow in our pitiful li’l garden plots.
Hmmm... tenant/peasant/sharecroppers we all will be, and considering the death of modern medicine, the dark age pestilences will follow.
Seventh Seal, anyone?
But, they have such good intentions, you know? Disgusted here in upstate NY.