February 9, 2010
Why Are Working People Happy That Health Care Reform May Have Failed?
Deductions for health insurance consume so much of the average worker’s salary that they’ve basically eaten up our annual raises for the last several years in a row. Pretty soon they’re going to actually start driving our paychecks down!
I understand not supporting one specific bill or another, or having honest disagreements about proposed policies, but what kind of working person is happy that he gets to be “free” when that “freedom” means no more raises for the rest of his working career?
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They do not understand it – they have been so confused by a major highly funded campaign from the GOP that they have become fearful of the unknown facts. I worked for a company for 3 1/2 years and had to pay for my own insurance – a policy they selected but I had to pay 100% of it. It started out at a little over $700 a month and by the third year it was costing me $1100.00 a month and I had to travel 120 miles round trip to see the doctor (or intern) they designated. Insurance and medical costs are gong to continue to rise as they have in the past; the health bill may not have been the best but anything to get the rising costs in check would be welcome.
“Deductions for health insurance consume so much of the average worker’s salary that they’ve basically eaten up our annual raises for the last several years in a row. Pretty soon they’re going to actually start driving our paychecks down!”
Because the health care reform was going to INCREASE the rate at which those costs rise.
I guess you do not realize that the proposed bills would make me continue paying the SAME premiums I was already paying plus an additional HUGE tax to pay for everybody else’s health care. If my cost of insurance is already too high and going up, which you are correct about, why would we support adding additional cost?
I would rather be poor and free than be a slave but have all my needs taken care of.
federal activity in health care is well outside the bounds of the constitution
so it is good that it is failed
i realize that other crap that we have is similar, but you have to draw the line somewhere
we will have to kill socialist security and medicare eventually
but again you have to start somewhere
keeping my policy under COBRA is $900/onth. That, my $600/month mortgage, utilities, car insurance, food on 1200 a month unemployment. How am I gonna pay for mandatory insurance?