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$100 a week for insurance and little or no raises!!
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Brown Driver" data-source="post: 1092358" data-attributes="member: 28722"><p>A little bit of health care history. The year is say, 1979. A person payed say $20 for an office visit and subsequent treatment maybe totally $100. Said person had insurance, but not for everyday doctor visits and meds. His insurance is for that car wreck he gets in and needs his leg removed and 30 days in the hospital to recover. Yeh, he might get a bill for $200-$500 that he can pay in installments, who knows. Point being, insurance was for catastrophic events, not when your kid has a cold or you have a cut that requires 5 stitches. Fast forward to 2013. Everyone and their mother goes to the doctor for every little damn ailment. Healthcare rates have gone thru the roof because of this. People abuse the very system put in place to help them. Even myself at one time. I am much more in tune with my healthcare costs now. I talk to my dentist or doctor when they want to bill me a certain amount and I haggle with them. It works and I did my part not to increase healthcare costs in this nation. Im not an overly worldly person, but Ive been to enough countries (10+)where some form of socialized medicine is in place and it sucks!! True, I know very little about Obamacare, but what I do know isnt gonna help like its meant to. I hate to digress, but Obamacare is going to impose so many hidden fees and taxes on the American taxpayer and corporations alike that we will never recover from it. And because of it, to some degree, UPS is contemplating proposing that we pay for some or all of our healthcare. Is there greed hidden somewhere in that proposal? Probably, who knows. But to simply place all the blame on greed and greed alone is narrow minded. </p><p> As someone else mentioned earlier, if they do take it away, then give us a raise to compensate and put the control of healthcare in the employees hands. Itll make for a better marketplace on healthcare. Companies will compete for our buisness and give us a better product. Either way,</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Brown Driver, post: 1092358, member: 28722"] A little bit of health care history. The year is say, 1979. A person payed say $20 for an office visit and subsequent treatment maybe totally $100. Said person had insurance, but not for everyday doctor visits and meds. His insurance is for that car wreck he gets in and needs his leg removed and 30 days in the hospital to recover. Yeh, he might get a bill for $200-$500 that he can pay in installments, who knows. Point being, insurance was for catastrophic events, not when your kid has a cold or you have a cut that requires 5 stitches. Fast forward to 2013. Everyone and their mother goes to the doctor for every little damn ailment. Healthcare rates have gone thru the roof because of this. People abuse the very system put in place to help them. Even myself at one time. I am much more in tune with my healthcare costs now. I talk to my dentist or doctor when they want to bill me a certain amount and I haggle with them. It works and I did my part not to increase healthcare costs in this nation. Im not an overly worldly person, but Ive been to enough countries (10+)where some form of socialized medicine is in place and it sucks!! True, I know very little about Obamacare, but what I do know isnt gonna help like its meant to. I hate to digress, but Obamacare is going to impose so many hidden fees and taxes on the American taxpayer and corporations alike that we will never recover from it. And because of it, to some degree, UPS is contemplating proposing that we pay for some or all of our healthcare. Is there greed hidden somewhere in that proposal? Probably, who knows. But to simply place all the blame on greed and greed alone is narrow minded. As someone else mentioned earlier, if they do take it away, then give us a raise to compensate and put the control of healthcare in the employees hands. Itll make for a better marketplace on healthcare. Companies will compete for our buisness and give us a better product. Either way, [/QUOTE]
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