Now I know why Greenspan retired..

[SoCalDem]

Bernanke is the hatchet man, who arrived on the scene to dismantle what little health care system we have in place now. I heard him, once again, pondering the "expense" to business, and how it's holding back profits..

Perhaps ole Greenie just didn't have ther stomach to drive that last nail in the coffin of the middle class..

Mark my words.. before the end of Prince Pissypants' reign, most employers will have dropped coverage for employees...


Costs to employees have gone up 63 per cent in the last few years.. Have their wages gone up 63%??

This will be the vehicle used to eliminate it altogether, and force people into the MSA fiasco.


Perhaps a devious way to kill off the boomers before we can even retire?

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Profits uber alles" - slogan of Republican culture of corruption

eom

[babylonsister]

2. And then take away pensions so retirement might resemble

a poor house. Wait! Maybe that's what those detention centers are for! :think:

[laheina]

4. Every time those things are mentioned,

I think of the forced labor camps from "1984." :scared:

[babylonsister]

6. I think of Germany, circa 30s/40s. nt

[laheina]

9. Exactly.

The persecuted, political dissenters, and debtors.

[debbierlus]

3. This may be a blessing in disguise

The health care system is BROKEN. It can not maintain the way it is... Employers dropping coverage is a symptom of the expense, but it will not stop the NEED for health care in this country. Mark my words. This country will be FORCED into a non-profit single payer government system. If employer's drop coverage, you will see it happen. The straw that broke the already broken camel's back.

[SoCalDem]

5. The transition must be SEAMLESS for it to work.

The nationalized health care MUST be ready to roll out AS the employer-provided ends.. I agree..employers have NO business having life or death control over employees, but to END the employer part, and NOT have a national plan ready to go, means a lot of ill or dead people, and a LOT of newly POOR people.

[FatDave]

7. Agreed

The pendulum will swing back to the left just as far as it has the right. And we know that's pretty damn far.

[Poppyseedman]

8. Employers will not drop coverage for employees

They simply will transfer the cost to the premium employees pay and force people to drop coverage.

I'm almost there.

Last four years my cost went from $63 a week to $127 a week. The company still pays the same amount it did four years ago and simply dropped the increase on the employees