Posted on 05/08/2010 6:51:55 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing
AT&T paid about $2.4 billion last year to cover medical costs of its 283,000 active workers, according to one document.
If the company were to push all those workers onto subsidized exchanges, AT&T estimated, it would only have to pay an annual penalty of $600 million, or $2,000 a worker.
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“Business has always wanted to get rid of the burden of health care.”
That’s because business wants to do business.
“how long is it going to be before all these businesses that drop health care see the “penalty” that they pay be just as much, if not more than having a health care plan on their books. 5 years? 10 years?”
Long enough to move their operations someplace where the cost of doing business is much lower.
Well, duh! That’s how they planned it!
The term ‘employee’ hints at a permanent contractural relationship between the worker and employer. In the new world corporate statist order, workers have no status or permanance.
Good point. Worker just sounds insulting these days.
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