What most influenced your decision about offering healthcare benefits to your employees?
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Despite the fact that we are not required to do so, we offer healthcare to our employees because it is the right thing to do. Universal healthcare ought to be the law of the land!
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Dorothy Blank
from Ankle & Foot Centre Of South Florida
Who do you think pays for universal healthcare. wait until you pay 70% of your income to cover everyone's health care.
Jessica Herron
from Sunny Day Travels
This is just not true and very short-sighted. Everyone with private insurance is paying for uninsured people and medicare now. We (and countless others) are self-employed and privately insured and our monthly premium is $1500 per month with a $10,000 deductible. Even if my taxes went up $500 per month, I would take it in a heartbeat vs what we are paying. If you are utilizing employer-sponsored insurance, your employer is picking up the difference in your paycheck copay and the premium cost so your private insurance likely costs far more than you think it does. Who do you think is pocketing all of this extra cash? The insurance and healthcare industries. Universal healthcare with standardized health costs will result in lower rates for everyone, even if there is a monthly cost.
Bill Schlack
from Cereset Fair Oaks
I just transitioned from private insurance to Medicare while still working and I find the complexities and time demands of me to process to be less than desirable. If I had a young family I'm not sure it would work at all.
Amy Quenneville
from Adirmont Real Estate, LLC
Medicare for all would not be identical to Medicare as it exists right now. Look it up on the websites. It would be vastly different.
John Jacobs
from Jacobs Financial Group LLC
With smoking, obesity and other treatable diseases causing the USA to spend the moist $ on health Care with lousy results--We pay far more for health care than any other country in the world, yet we have far worse outcomes than any other country in the world.--WHY NOT try something `else.
Will Universal Health Care cost MORE than the 18% and rising of GDP we NOW spend? " ... More specifically, the United States spent 17.8 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, versus an average of 11.5 percent for the other countries.Mar 18, 2019