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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage, your company is not profitable and your business is ALREADY a failure. [/quote]

+1 No more exemptions from providing leave or healthcare. All workers have the same rights, not just those who work for huge corporations. [/quote]

This is a different issue. And I think you’re wrong. Minimum wage sure. [/quote]

Workers shouldn't all have equal protections? A Starbucks employee is entitled to healthcare or FMLA but someone working for a very small business is SOL?[/quote]
Nope, I think employer sponsored healthcare is dumb. I like single payer.[/quote]

I agree but we don't have that. In the absence of single payer, all employees should have access to the same benefits, regardless of if they work at Burger King or a tiny accounting firm with 4 employees. [/quote]

I think you’re more likely to get single payer than that.  Large corporations need to pay their FAIR share. You’ll get small business support for that.[/quote]

Fair enough. I guess I'm not seeing for forest for the trees. I do hope we can get single payer soon. [b]If I added up my out of pocket medical expenses over the past 5 years, it would be enough for a down payment on a house around here. [/quote][/b]

Exactly, and do you know why health insurance costs are 15K per employee for every business- HUGE drain on them - because the health insurance industry pockets MOST of our premiums and our employers paid portion as their own personal PROFIT ( CEO makes 50 Mill a year, 100 Million a year spent on lobbying, millions spent to employ " benefits denying staff who's sole job is to deny your bills for coverage"

These aren't the Doctors and Nurses who are caring for you- these are Middle Men

Get rid of them.

I am healthy. Why ??? should I be forced to pay $3,800 a year and my employer $15,000 a year to an Insurance Company when all I need is a Phsyical once a year . That is insane waste of money BOTH for me AND the corporation that employs me.

Nationalize Health Care- most of us do NOT need 100,000's of care a year, we just need $500 worth.[/quote]

Yep! And imagine what a small business owner could do with that money?! Maybe hire a few people and pay them ... 15 bucks an hour![/quote]

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