Legion–thanks! check em out and pass em on if you like them. You saw my pat on the back to you no? I really do appreciate that you can come on here and muck it up with everybody in the way you do. Shows a lot of fortitude on your part.
Question though – If there is a viable public option, what incentive do employers have to keep providing healthcare to their employees?
DH–if there were a real public option on the table you would be asking a very valid question. In Australia, where I will live some day god willing, employers don’t provide healthcare benefits. Everyone is given universal coverage by the federal government. Then the people who can afford to and choose to, get US style health coverage on top of it (ie–private, swankier coverage). Insurers have nothing to do with it. But I don’t think this country is anywhere near ready for that kind of system, which is why all this talk of socialism is way overblown.
Legion–you already have health insurance. Nobody is going to “make” you buy it. That is the point. For those of us who can afford it or have it through work this will not change anything.
Posted by: wasder at March 22, 2010 12:20 PM
Question though – If there is a viable public option, what incentive do employers have to keep providing healthcare to their employees?
If we want to get away from health care and move towards shilling wasder’s career (I know you all do!) check out these videos. If you like food and wine and music in combination you will like these little documentaries I produced and directed for American Express….
Speaking of wine, did you see Fess Parker died?
Legion–thanks! check em out and pass em on if you like them. You saw my pat on the back to you no? I really do appreciate that you can come on here and muck it up with everybody in the way you do. Shows a lot of fortitude on your part.
now I’m in the mood for a
meritage to go with my republican “whine”.
Posted by: Legion at March 22, 2010 12:34 PM
Will it be Vintage? :o)
wasder,
nice work with the pairings,
great images.
now I’m in the mood for a
meritage to go with my republican “whine”.
DH, they don’t. Employers will be penalized if they don’t, plain and simple.
Question though – If there is a viable public option, what incentive do employers have to keep providing healthcare to their employees?
DH–if there were a real public option on the table you would be asking a very valid question. In Australia, where I will live some day god willing, employers don’t provide healthcare benefits. Everyone is given universal coverage by the federal government. Then the people who can afford to and choose to, get US style health coverage on top of it (ie–private, swankier coverage). Insurers have nothing to do with it. But I don’t think this country is anywhere near ready for that kind of system, which is why all this talk of socialism is way overblown.
wasder and cobble,
perhaps therein lies the solution,
and I would certainly agree with it,
let’s allow Europe, Japan, South Korea
and the middle east to pay for it’s own
military protection.
then we can fund our own healthcare without
protest. after all, that’s how western europe
has been able to fund it’s healthcare so
generously.
at the same time let’s understand that
our military expenditures throughout the
last 50 years have been bipartisan in nature.
Legion–you already have health insurance. Nobody is going to “make” you buy it. That is the point. For those of us who can afford it or have it through work this will not change anything.
Posted by: wasder at March 22, 2010 12:20 PM
Question though – If there is a viable public option, what incentive do employers have to keep providing healthcare to their employees?
If we want to get away from health care and move towards shilling wasder’s career (I know you all do!) check out these videos. If you like food and wine and music in combination you will like these little documentaries I produced and directed for American Express….
http://pairings.com/index.html