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Originally posted by XXcrowXX
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UNDER THE NEW PLAN ? WITH NO MAJOR MEDICAL TRAGEDIES
A single worker, with PPO coverage, would see his or her out-of-pocket increase from $234 per year to $1,480 ? up $1,260!
That same worker, if he or she is in the HMO plan would see his or her costs increase from $54 to $1,200 per year ? up $1,146!
A worker who has a family and participates in the PPO plan would see out of picket costs go from approximately $640 to $4,095 ? an increase of $3,455 per year.* That same worker whose family participates in the HMO plan see his or her out of pocket costs increase from $90 to $3,685 per year ? up $3,595!
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i'm sorry ... if my skills demanded i work at the grocery store, i'd be happy for insurance for 100 / mo. It sucks health care costs so much, but one trip to the doc for broken bone up will cost you more than 1200 .... to get full benifits for a job that doesn't take much skill is lucky (more to the point in so cal which has an abundance of labor). Some unions do good these days ... others only want more members and thoes members to re-bill ... sound like a familiar business model?
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Yeah seriously, fuck them. $100 a month for health insurance is NOTHING. I pay over $400 a month for Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield for a single person plan, plus copays on visits and prescriptions. If any of these people are making $30-50k a year... hell, even $20k a year, they can more than afford that.
People that aren't self employeed and used to abusing their company's health insurance plans, have no idea how worse off they could be. I know people that take jobs, just FOR the great benefits. I'd love to get coverage for $100 bucks or so a month, regardless of how much I make... $100 a month for your health is $3.33 a day.
Strikers in this day in age don't seem to realize that they can be replaced and I think they SHOULD be. They go on strike for what THEY believe in, but fuck the customers they are effecting.
When I moved 3 years ago, Verizon was on strike for fuckin weeks and fucked up my entire business for a long time, because I couldn't even get anyone on the phone, much less get service. Strikers
Scab and proud.