Re: What do you think of Bush's healthcare proposal?
What Tabbycat & Price+ said......
I agree about the big box stores & even some of the unionized stores avoid giving people medical insurance by not giving them the hours the union says they have to work to give benefits... my half sister had that problem @ the grocery store she worked @. I also think that's why most folks who like KOHLS DEPT store aren't seeing. I worked there like 3 days before I had to quit because I wasn't getting any hours or benefits & I left a full time job for 5 hrs a week! Complete BS! & then when you looked in the employee area there were atleast 100 time cards!! WOA! I worked in a store half the size & I think we had maybe 20 people full & pt! They paid you a holiday if you worked the day before it & a share of their stock here & there but beyond that it was a JOKE! Makes you wonder where all their mark up is going????
Anywho.... I'm not going to worry about it either til it passes. But I agree I don't think it'll help citizens who can't afford or have the benefit of medical insurance, just people who can afford to buy their own.
Perhaps if they'd require all buisness that were say making X amt of profit or X # of employees would be *required* to provide so much insurance coverage per average yearly hours worked or something to that fact. Something so you atleast could have bare minimum coverage instead of none @ all.
I love my dh's insurance they pay out alot & we pay next to nothing in co-pays. If it wasn't for that & having a family he probably would of left the job along time ago. Heck when I had my kids I only paid the co-pays for the office visits ($6 each visit!!! Can't beat that!) & I paid ZERO in hospital bills! But that's changed so I think I have a $200 co-pay tward deliveries but that's still not shabby @ all.
Though I wonder if you ever look @ a hospital bill from a preferred provider & the discounts are huge, cut in half or more! How do they afford to give such discounts? Is that for the people who have to do into some serious debt because of not having insurance who have to foot the whole bill???
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