Posted on 05/20/2010 5:50:26 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Companies are discovering that it's cheaper to pay fines to the government than to cover workers.
Millions of American workers could discover that they no longer have employer-provided health insurance as ObamaCare is phased in. That's because employers are quickly discovering that it may be cheaper to pay fines to the government than to insure workers.
AT&T, Caterpillar, John Deere and Verizon have all made internal calculations, according the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to determine how much could be saved by a) dropping their employer-provided insurance, b) paying a fine of $2,000 per employee, and c) leaving their employees with the option of buying highly-subsidized insurance in the newly created health-insurance exchange.
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Ok so here is a question. Is the cost this gubmint insurance going to be indexed to what one can afford based on income? Are the plans going to be the same and based on what one can pay, punish the higher earners with higher costs for the same plan?
I’ve suggested that before. I’m sure there are various federal schemes to try to prevent it, but I don’t they’d hold up if the Indians made a stink about it. Seems to me they could make oodles of money doing something a heck of lot more socially responsible than peddling gambling and tobacco. Opt themselves totally out of all malpractice law and set up a tribal council to handle complaints. Good business practice would motivate them to dump any doctors who really screwed up, but they wouldn’t have to pass on to patients the zillions of dollars in extra costs from idiots like John Edwards trumping up phony malpractice cases against obstetricians.
It sucks even more that the Republicans are as liberal as the Democrats....for decades unWILLING to change anything and just as big spend-thrifts when they had the power.
Kinda sucks when the Republican party wants to see run nothing more the a pack of socialists... and then cries when nobody wants 'em. (Heck, JFK was more conservative than many Republicans nowadays.)
“That’s because employers are quickly discovering that it may be cheaper to pay fines to the government than to insure workers. “
Gee. I wonder if that was unintended? NOT!
We are SO screwed. Just SO screwed.
Deal killer right there. You can get murdered, mugged and raped - and have your car stolen - at any of our many local Injun casinos, and you're shit outta luck; word flies quickly.
The tribes don't even bother responding to complaints. You're on your own when you enter their little world.
In tough economic times, who says that large employers have to pay anyone higher wages when there are millions of unemployed and underemployed people out there who would love to have a job?
If they don’t respond to complaints about medical care, they won’t get many customers. People are pretty rational about health care shopping — going to a casino is irrational in the first place, and the Indians know full well people who want to throw their money away will just keep coming.
“I hope that you’re not seriously suggesting that Obama and the rats are in office because a few hard-core freepers voted third party. All of them could have voted for McCain and he still would have lost. He was a pathetic choice as a candidate.”
No, not at all. It was a handful of Senate races, like MN...that got the Dems up to what they needed to finally implement their dreams.
STUPIDITY has consequences....
oooooooooo....interesting idea!
The only problem is the government will try and find a way to squash the idea.
example. The indian reservations use their sovereignty to sell cheap cigarettes...but the government makes laws that forbids the post office and the UPS from delivering them and stop the Credit card companies from paying for them.
Bump
My whole argument against Obama’s healthcare bill is that it’s unconstitutional to force Americans to purchase anything, much less health care. A liberal shot my argument down with the claim that the Republicans thought of it or presented it first. Suspecting the usual lie, I did a search and found this site. It seems the Dems are saying that they only took the idea of government mandated insurance from the Republicans.
http://www.ksdp.org/blog/kansas-republicans-insurance-mandate-they-were-against-it
Can anyone refute this? It’s definitely news to me.
One ot the functions of the BIA is overseeing Indian Health programs. Obamacare has been on the res for a long time. In fact, though there may be some good programs out there, many would say it was the prime example of why to keep the government out of health care.
This is the one thing that would be very necessary for almost all health care services, Viagra excepted.
So what the government's got now, won't cut it, to squash healthcare.
Kinda sucks when arrogant Yacht Club ****'s want conservatives to "service" them and shut the hell up.
Bite me. And tell your bud Poppy Bush I said for him to bite me, too.
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