Are you effing kidding?
I have worked for and PAID for my health insurance all my life.
Look, I mean no offense, but don’t go blathering on about the challenges of paying your thirty percent of federal employee premiums. Good lord.
The way you and people like you go on makes me wonder what you’d do in an hourly-wage job, that gives you a week’s vacation for the first year, or maybe the first few years, and two weeks after that for ten years, and three after fifteen.
Try running your own little shop sometime and see how tough your present benefit package looks to you then. Put in 80 hours a week and sweep floors and interview half-educated applicants and wonder how much of your bottom line is bleeding out the back door, or the front-—for pete’s sake, man, WE PAY YOUR SALARY, YOUR BENEFITS, PROBABLY YOUR TRAVEL, YOUR CHILDCARE...and you find it in you to question what we have dealt with in our lives? Well, you are welcome, is all I can tell you.
SO, STFU.