Omaha Steve
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Sun May-09-10 06:09 AM
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| 23. Most AT&T workers have a contract that guarantees health insurance |
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It would be management and non union workers that would loose coverage. And nothing in HCR would have changed what AT&T is thinking of doing. Deere is UAW. Same thing.
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| -Will businesses drop their health benefit programs? |
eridani |
May-08-10 06:26 AM |
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Looks like retirees might be protected for awhile |
Lasher |
May-08-10 06:42 AM |
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And if your employer fucks you over by dropping your doctor, then what? n/t |
eridani |
May-09-10 04:04 AM |
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Then I guess you find a different doctor. |
Lasher |
May-09-10 04:12 AM |
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Or get single payer, which doesn't fuck people over by taking away their doctors n/t |
eridani |
May-09-10 06:10 AM |
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That's where I was coming from with the different country thing. |
Lasher |
May-09-10 08:15 AM |
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This is why we need a national single-payer system... |
Scuba |
May-08-10 06:44 AM |
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and in lieu of that... |
ProdigalJunkMail |
May-08-10 06:53 AM |
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+1 |
area51 |
May-08-10 12:24 PM |
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Good point (nt) |
varelse |
May-08-10 05:30 PM |
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Obama always was speaking out of his (fine) arse, re: "can keep". Employees ARE NOT IN CONTROL. |
WinkyDink |
May-08-10 06:59 AM |
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It's a mistake to have employers providing health insurance. |
Lasher |
May-08-10 11:58 AM |
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And 'you can't be |
femrap |
May-08-10 12:25 PM |
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Documents reveal AT&T, Verizon, others, thought about dropping employer-sponsored benefits |
boston bean |
May-08-10 07:09 AM |
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I hope my daughter's company drops health insurance. |
canoeist52 |
May-08-10 07:45 AM |
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And the HCR passed emulates MA in that n/t |
eridani |
May-09-10 04:06 AM |
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The only solution, should this happen, is the |
annabanana |
May-08-10 07:47 AM |
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Without a union contract they can do anything they want |
NNN0LHI |
May-08-10 07:50 AM |
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It happened to a friend of mine. |
Catshrink |
May-08-10 12:05 PM |
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They will be subjected to a fine soon enough.....nt |
Change Happens |
May-09-10 08:24 AM |
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The company or my friend? |
Catshrink |
May-09-10 08:46 AM |
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The company.....A fine in the form of a tax to help cover people, I like the idea |
Change Happens |
May-09-10 08:59 AM |
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More likely that they will offer useless health care benefits. |
undeterred |
May-08-10 12:12 PM |
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SInce most businesses are in it for some sort of a profit, if the fine |
Obamanaut |
May-08-10 12:21 PM |
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you have to consider retention also |
CTLawGuy |
May-09-10 08:25 AM |
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knr ... |
slipslidingaway |
May-08-10 05:11 PM |
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They aren't spending $2.4 billion a year on coverage for its employees because they are nice |
NNN0LHI |
May-08-10 05:41 PM |
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That could be a good thing. Maybe more people will be in the exchanges and |
NC_Nurse |
May-08-10 05:39 PM |
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The critical point you are missing is that without reform, they can drop coverage with NO penalty. |
BzaDem |
May-09-10 05:50 AM |
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So, how do you decide whether you are a Platinum, Gold, Silver or Bronze human being? |
eridani |
May-09-10 06:12 AM |
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You are comparing healthcare reform to your pie-in-the-sky system. Not the previous status quo. |
BzaDem |
May-09-10 06:25 AM |
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A plan that drains your pocketbook before covering any actual care is useless |
eridani |
May-10-10 03:52 AM |
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"The whole notion that available care should depend in any way on income is absolute bullshit." |
BzaDem |
May-10-10 04:54 AM |
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When 82% support a public option, how is that "infeasible"? |
eridani |
May-10-10 02:44 PM |
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Most AT&T workers have a contract that guarantees health insurance |
Omaha Steve |
May-09-10 06:09 AM |
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Labor contracts eventually expire. Do you think AT&T workers will have health care in the next one? |
jody |
May-09-10 08:27 AM |
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Yes I do |
Omaha Steve |
May-10-10 06:12 AM |
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Good news , let them, it will lead to single payer! We already have the VA, Medicare, Medicaid, and |
Change Happens |
May-09-10 08:23 AM |
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They won't. |
rucky |
May-09-10 08:51 AM |
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"The ones that do follow through will find them unable to keep good employees for long." |
depakid |
May-10-10 04:11 AM |
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and especially when there are 20 people wanting a job, for every job "offered" |
SoCalDem |
May-10-10 06:08 AM |
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