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2016 Postmortem

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TexasBushwhacker

(20,738 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2016, 09:59 PM Jan 2016

Companies should be on board w/ Sander's healthcare plan [View all]

Any company that currently provides health insurance will probably come out ahead, especially small companies. I work for one. I pay the bills and do the payroll. Our employees are all over forty and some, like me, are pushing 60. We currently pay about $2800 for 5 people for a silver plan with a $6000 deductible. We would pay about $1600 a month with this plan and no deductibles or copays. What's not to love? 6.2% will save most companies money.

I'm sure that companies like Walmart and McDonald's that have huge numbers of employees who are covered by Medicaid or can't afford to pay their half of the company insurance plan premiums won't like it, but tough shit. I'm tired of subsidizing these corporate welfare queens.

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Absolutely Thav Jan 2016 #1
And age based premiums discourage hiring older workers TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #3
They should be but won't be lostnfound Jan 2016 #2
That was my first thought when I read it over... TCJ70 Jan 2016 #4
And another thing TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #5
I wonder how GE would have fared loyalsister Jan 2016 #6
I'm sure they would like people to think that TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #8
His plan is fantastic. in_cog_ni_to Jan 2016 #7
I wanted to slap Andrea Mitchell TexasBushwhacker Jan 2016 #9
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