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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:12 PM Original message |
Please explain to me why corporations large & small are not rallying like crazy behind HCR? |
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sweetpotato (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
1. Corporate "persons" apparently have the backs of other corporate "persons" |
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LuvNewcastle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
2. The only thing that keeps many people |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Ding ding ding!!! |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Well that is a good point. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. The big companies have good healthcare. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:32 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. The big companies with good healthcare are exactly the ones that would benefit most. |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. The threat of unemployment is more profound when benefits would be lost |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
6. They aren't interested in making money the old fashioned way. |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Which is really a reason why they should WANT to pass the healthcare buck. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:29 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Honestly, they don't care. The small business owner does but he has |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
7. According to this, the cost of benefits as % of compensation was 30.2 % in 2007 |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
8. HCR would erase the competitive advantage other countries have against us |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 02:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. No, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. nt |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
12. a few years back, I remember the mantra of the "business types" was |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
13. They are worried that we might figure out that this is our country, not theirs. |
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ljm2002 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. Because the monied class that runs things... |
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Xolodno (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-25-09 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
17. I remember our CEO... |
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