To: Nachum
” they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees “
Nothing new there - when I worked for a certain Big Box Home Improvement Retailer (ahem, think orange), it would have cost me 1/3 of my takehome pay to buy into their “industry-leading” health insurance plan...
Since I have this irrational preference for sleeping indoors, and eating, I passed....
4 posted on
05/24/2010 8:06:05 AM PDT by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: Uncle Ike
Basically, they are saying to business, “thou shalt subsidize insurance.”
5 posted on
05/24/2010 8:11:34 AM PDT by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: Uncle Ike
it would have cost me 1/3 of my takehome pay to buy into their “industry-leading” health insurance plan
That is part of the problem. The states have required that insurance policies cover such a wide variety of things by law. This drives up prices for the insurance and those costs are passed on to the employee or consumer. Now if insurance policies could be designed to address each employees need the costs could be reduced greatly. A good example of this is the requirement to cover birth control. The elderly and faithful Catholics do not need BC coverage, but the law mandates it.
To: Uncle Ike
My God, Man, how selfish can you be? Haven't you ever heard of Ramen noodles and a sleeping bag?
16 posted on
05/24/2010 10:49:35 AM PDT by
JPG
(Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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