Same with Social Security and Medicare: Dependency on corporate management. Particularly given the monopsony resulting from (republican inspired) corporate consolidation and shareholder supremacy.
You know my view: screw shareholders. The people who make a company successful are the workers. Shareholders just sit on their arse expecting to be paid for doing nothing.
I was talking to someone with good health insurance the other day who said she's against ACA. I asked her why. She said that it took her longer to get doctor's appointments now that everyone else could get them. It's not just the rich who are against it 😭😭
As someone who lost my health insurance and my kid lost hers, because my husband/her daddy died of cancer, and being dead, he couldn't work any longer, so there went the health insurance from him...we SOOOOO must decouple health insurance from work.
Centene the company I work for .. are developing a healthcare system whereby you buy into insurance then that insurance goes with you where ever you go.. with the new company paying their part.. don’t have all the details.. but like right? Our CEO is paid 3x less than the next lowest paid CEO 3x ..
I used to drive medical samples for a hospital. The pay was so low I had 2 other jobs besides that 1. I only used my health ins for preventative care, so I eventually quit to get a CDL. Basically healthy people aren't as stuck & fucked as sick people, so pick your parents very carefully.
How many people do you know that fit that criteria? Maybe some retired people? If there are one or two out of every ten or twenty- then you should have your answer.
On the other hand, I’ve noticed companies like Honeywell that love to layoff their workers and then hire contractors a few months down the road in their place. You don’t have to pay any benefits to a contract worker. If companies valued loyalty, they wouldn’t have scrapped pension plans.
This is the part *I* want to see when we talk about making America great again. I don't know how you incentivize a corporation to give more benefits and better pay to its employees when vulture capitalism says you need to squeeze every single cent out that you can in the name of profit.
Ever since companies decided to all go public, they are at the mercy of stockholders that demand more more more. With so many companies stuck in the IPO cycle, it seems impossible.
And those stockholders aren't regular people like you or me. It's the ultra rich getting richer. Not the average Americans upon whose backs they're doing it.
We need to stop all unnecessary consumer spending beginning 2025-01-20. Take away billions of dollars from the oligarchs daily. Boycott the inauguration. Boycott MSM. Support independent journalism. Support local small businesses. Please repost this. Let's make it go viral. #BC2025
It’s a fight whose principle weapon is lies. Back in the 90s, the zeitgeist was that socialized medicine did not work. I went to Europe in the 90s and saw that it did. It was the first realization of just how much of the American narrative is a tissue of lies.
More importantly, better jobs => less stress (#1 killer), and better pay => better/healthier lifestyles (in most cases) => less spending on reactive healthcare. 🤔
Employers add the cost of employee HC to the cost of their products. We pay more for everything we buy because it has someone’s HC added to the cost. Universal health could make their products more competitively priced. You’d think corporations would embrace Universal care.
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I can’t imagine living the way ppl do without free healthcare and a great wage that covers living expenses
I just can’t
(Thanks, Obama, we got covered later.)
I always quote her, whoever she was.
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https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/is-stress-the-number-one-killer-in-america/