They aren’t even calling it the ‘Affordable Care Act” anymore because the “affordable” part has become such a tragic joke and a reminder of the lies this POS was sold under. Now, they just avert their eyes and call it PPACA when they have to defend it; trying to hide their shame behind a bland acronym.
Thanks, Peter H.
Lol! None of the Celebutards who’ve been pimping this crap sandwich gave a shout out to it at the a Golden Globes either. Plus you have Nancy Pelosi calling it “The Affordable Care Act” and saying that is what she has always called it (despite video of her calling it Obamacare). Eventually, it will prove to be so unpopular, it will be called Bushcare (liberals have already resorted to saying it’s just like Romneycare and that the Heritage Foundation was the entity that came up with the idea).
runni, what is your fallback plan in case you are wrong? If you pay much attention to history, you know that certain social goods, when the IT expert was not a known title, took time to be understood by those who benefit the most. And yet there are few who benefit who will call for the end of the Plan D drug benefit, or for the reintroduction of the pre-existing condition option. Or are you aware of a crowd who call for such changes?
Michael… Maine had a very reasonable approach to pre-existing conditions. Now that is out the window. One size does not fit all.
You need to turn off MSNBC and read some real news.
People love free sh-t from the Government. No surprise there. It doesn’t matter how much people love welfare; an ever-expanding entitlement class on top of a stagnant or declining economy is simply not economically sustainable.
It’s also not moral.
Being a parasite is not moral; but morality is not a thing low-information voters care about.
VtheK, the thing about the Plan D drug benefit is that it is not free. It is less expensive since the introduction of legislation that funds part of it than it was when introduced in 2003. But if you are a conservative, then you have followed the money. And have learned that Plan D drug benefit was a sop to the elderly class who accepted the benefit as it was accompanied by a tax reduction for others, some elderly but most not. Legislators have addressed the problem, beginning in 2006.
Tnns, can you tell us why a good idea in Maine did not course through the entire health insurance industry? I mean to question your understanding of the value to an ordinary citizen of a “pre-existing condition freedom to cancel your health insurance plan” regulation.
Bastiat, you are onto something in your post. You did not say it straight out, but surely you will agree that the fastest way to reduce the entitled group is to create living wage jobs in communities where entitlement costs are greatest.
VtheK, your intestinal tract is filled to the brim with parasites that are important to your continued good health. By its nature, a parasite has a job to do. Morality is simply not a factor.
But I suspect that you mean to denigrate those who do not have living wage jobs. Or those whose physical or mental health prevents them from gainful employment. Or perhaps you mean women whose churches direct them to be obedient to men, to serve them as vessels for regeneration of the tribe, etc.
Among others, parasites include the pricipal of PS 106 in Far Rockaway in New York. It includes the pension managers in Detroit who raided the pension system to pay themselves and their cronies bonuses and drove the city to bankruptcy. Obama’s Cronies at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs with their billions in bailout money.
All parasites.
“your intestinal tract is filled to the brim with parasites that are important to your continued good health”
Uh, no.
The normal intestinal flora are symbiotes while cholera bacteria are parasites. Similarly, Police and fire and trash removal are symbiotes while welfare-eating layabouts and diversity trainers and “community organizers” are parasites.
Michael: You want to portray welfare consumers as innocent victims of circumstance, but you have to lie by commission and omission to do so. Or have you forgotten the culture of laziness and dependency–and outright intolerance of achievement–that lead to children not making any effort to learn in school and thus becoming unemployable by virtue of a total lack of technical and social skills?
Because the Obama Party that wrote and pushed Obamacare ignored anything that in any way did not promote a government takeover of health insurance.
Correction. Those are symbiotes, not parasites. Look up the difference and you will understand the problem.
Yes, we do.
Yes, we do.
Now, when you start shrieking that not everyone is doing that, I will simply point out that you made no such qualifications in your initial statement and that you were doling out checks to drunks and frauds.
More parasites: The ever growing government bureaucracy, which cannot be fired and which lives to regulate the citizenry to death.
One difference between bacterial parasites and the modern social sort, is that no cholera bacterium ever told its host that it should be thankful for being infected.
Lol, Michael’s understanding of biology is on par with his knowledge of economics and social anthropology.
Actually, the churches that do that get free welfare handouts and millions of dollars from the Obama Party.
You forget, Michael, you are dealing with intelligent people here, which means your fact-free Obama talking points and liberal lies simply don’t work. We know full well that you support raping and sexually imprisoning women for religious reasons if it produces reliable Obama Party votes, just as Your Black Muslim Bakery did for Barack Obama and the Obama Party.
Michael’s comments, regardless of their content, read like a pretentious, tedious, condescending piece of legal text that is filled with run-on sentences. And I thought I was boring to read. Do you seriously talk like that, Michael? Good god.
They read like they’ve been written by a nitwit (which they have been) who’s had his subpar brain crammed full of leftist twaddle which has proven to be far more than his subpar intellect to process properly (which it is).
He’s a leftist slogan regurgitator; not a thinker.
I’ve never met a parasite who understands that the death of the host results in his own death.
Is it just me, or does Pajama Boy look as queer as a three dollar bill?
davinci, if you gave Pajamaboy a nine dollar bill, he could give three threes in change.
Michael, I am not wrong. I will not be wrong. Obamacare is an unmitigated disaster, and it will only get worse as employers drop healthcare coverage for their employees and opt to pay the fines. In 2015, the 40% “Cadillac tax” takes effect. The device tax which is imposed per item sold not on profit has already reduced funding for research and development and will put small medical device companies out of business. My hospital, where I work, is already getting dinged for patients who are readmitted less than 30 days after they were discharged. Some of those patients returned because they neglected to follow up with prescribed post-op care (wound infections due to not taking proper care of their surgical incisions, not going to dialysis or follow up appointments, etc.) Patients are not held accountable for taking care of themselves, and it’s absolutely disgusting!
The countries that do have socialized medicine now are finding they cannot afford it either. They don’t spend money on defense so they have more money to spend, and it is not sustainable (Canada, I’m looking at you!) Private clinics are popping up in Canada that are technically illegal, but are thriving because people do not want to wait months and months to get an MRI or orthopedic surgery. The UK is also looking to privatize.
In addition, no other country with government run healthcare has the out of control litigation we have, Michael. When you have decreased reimbursements, increased overhead including physicians who depending on where they live in the country and their specialty paying 6 figures for malpractice insurance, coupled with crippling school debt, who in their right mind will want to become a doctor? The best and brightest use to go into medicine. They aren’t any more (as evidenced by the quality of our residents these days). Obamacare never addressed tort reform or doctor shortages. Something it had every opportunity to do (which Republicans had suggested, but they were excluded from the process).
So if you prefer “free”, sub-standard, delayed, unsafe healthcare administered by providers who will be working what in years past was “beyond their scope of practice”, have at it Michael. You should be careful what you wish for.
Don’t try to get in a pissing match with me over healthcare. I work in it. I see first hand what is going on. Do you?
runni, the hospitals in my area were found lacking in certain requirements. They quickly added staff tasked with making sure that the least able patients were monitored especially for attention to their needs. None of the hospitals now get carded on the points you mention.
runni, PPACA is not an example of “government run health care”. Every consumer who qualifies for insurance through an exchange chooses what he gets, pays, if able, for what he gets. The American Way. There are hospitals and clinics in America that employ government employees. Surely you know about them.
The only people who can buy through an exchange are ones who formerly could not get a policy; those who customarily buy for themselves; those whose employers are members of Congress, and a few others.
“Small medical device companies” have never had a long shelf life. The goal is to make enough noise to secure a takeover. Anyone whose company provides Cadillac coverage can afford the minimal costs. Why should anyone have more benefits than a member of Congress?
ND30, have you examined the pregnancy rate for unmarried women in Dallas lately? You provide a story that is well past its use by date that also appears to have been taken in hand by authorities. No doubt of course you would have handled it sooner and differently. But you were kept in the dark, I bet.
Rattles, if you disagree with a fact, provide an objective truth that is superior to what I provide you. After all, conservatism depends upon careful use of facts. For instance, I am certainly thankful that some know the nature of parasites. Not so much about the general welfare sections in the Constitution, but hey there’s is a lot to know.
ND30, you spend an inordinate amount of time writing about “shrieking” and your right to denigrate those who do not have living wage jobs. I cannot think that you can spend this kind of time on this kind of forum and be employed.
What has conservatism, Dallas style, done to create living wage jobs in Texas lately? What have you done to secure the same freedom to sleep without fear that you have, having yourself secure health insurance?
“The countries that do have socialized medicine now are finding they cannot afford it either.”
Some progressives are q
Some progressives are quite open about not caring. Others merely demonstrate by their actions that this is so.
“What has conservatism, Dallas style, done to create living wage jobs in Texas lately?”
The Texas economy is booming, and people are flocking there for the jobs.
Even Time has admitted the Texan economy and standard of living is going to become more typical. Sure, you make less than a person living in NYC. But you don’t need to, when half of an NYC salary will get you living arrangements four times the size of an NYC one, if not more. People down in Texas are happy with what they have, they see the trade in pay for more space and less intrusion to be worth it.
Texas: No income tax. $2Billion budget surplus. Half of all news jobs created in the USA.
Compare to the high-tax, quasi-socialist states of Illinois, California, and New York, then get back to us.
Michael… you lost all credibility with “livable wage”. Show me a 28 year old male still working for minimum wage and I will show you a person who made some serious life errors.
Show me a 26 year old single mother of two working for minimum and I will show you are person who made some serious life errors.
My partner and I were dirt poor when we moved in together in 1982. Working full time, going to school full time, no car, no cable TV, no phone. We slept on a twin bed for 3 years! Do not talk to me about a livable wage.
47 million people are on food stamps !
http://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/29snapcurrpp.htm
This is the same Obama economy that allowed Warren Buffett to increase his wealth by $12.5 billion last year. Your POS POTUS screams, cries and stamps his feet about income inequality while he appoints a Fed Chair who will continue the policy of making the poor poorer and the rich richer and leaves the middle class holding the bag. Remember, his “nuclear” option is going to have consequences.
Please explain to us how QE offers great earning potential for the wealthy. Please explain to us how QE will help a person achieve a “livable wage”. Then please explain to us why your POS POTUS is screaming about income inequality and “livable wages”. Finally, please explain to us how an increase in the federal minimum wage will increase the donations to liberal candidates from unions.
Also, explain why the “livable wage” party is seeking to import tens of millions of cheap foreign laborers to undercut the wages of American workers.
“You did not say it straight out, but surely you will agree that the fastest way to reduce the entitled group is to create living wage jobs in communities where entitlement costs are greatest.”
Nope.. fastest way to reduce the entitled group in communities where entitlement costs are greatest is to remove the entitlements to those who make wrong life choices. Liberal fallacy.. governments can create private sector jobs. Truth .. governments can only create an environment that encourages private sector jobs, or in the case of your POS POTUS discourage private sector job creation. Public sector job creation is a net negative. Public sector jobs do not create wealth.
You haven’t provided anything other than comments that are very unpleasant to read.
You mean the general welfare clause that leftists have used as a flimsy justification for their theft? Somehow, I don’t think that is what the writers had in mind when they wrote that. But it doesn’t matter what it says in the U.S. Constitution anyway. Principles are universal and exist regardless of what it says in any document; the principle of natural law on which the U.S. Constitution was based pre-dated it, continued to exist while Woodrow Wilson and the rest of the virulently racist “progressives” were destroying it, and will continue to exist after the Democratic party and other leftists have made it nothing more than a distant memory that anyone is forbidden to mention.
Um, like maybe the fact that there *aren’t* “general welfare sections” in the Constitution of the United States.
The hilarity of the true believer.
Followed by:
And this will make that line of screaming logic go bye-bye.
Actually, it wasn’t until they made the mistake of killing a black journalist who asked too many questions.
Before that, no Obama Party member objected to anything they were doing, even though it WAS well known.
Of course you don’t; you’re a bigot, and as a result you really aren’t a very intelligent person.
Actually, I work to secure that freedom.
You want goodies without having to work for them. Indeed, you want to steal from others so you don’t have to work.
You are a parasite, Michael. But that’s typical. Liberals are lazy parasites.
“You provide a story that is well past its use by date that also appears to have been taken in hand by authorities.”
What? Does the arrest of the murderer somehow negate the point about a racist, fascist, criminal gang supporting Obama?
Does the passage of a few years require that we all forget what happened?
Michael @ #2:
1. What is your fallback plan?
1a. If you pay (much) attention to history, you know that certain social goods (…) took time to be understood by those who benefit the most.
Non-sequitur. Furthermore, it appears that Michael does not know the difference between “goods” and “services.” However, since it is a non sequitur, who cares?
1b. And yet there are few who benefit who will call for the end of the Plan D drug benefit…..
Apparently a poll has been taken and it has been established that a “few” who benefit from Plan D would call for ending Plan D. Citation, please.
1c. And yet there are few who benefit who will call for (…) the reintroduction of the preexisting condition option.
Apparently a poll has been taken and it has been established that a “few” who benefit from the preexisting condition option would call for ending the preexisting condition option. Citation, please.
2. Or are you aware of a crowd who call for such changes?
If 2. is the summary question, then the comment goes like this:
There are fallacies of logic, but none apply here as no logic was committed.
Michael believes that people receiving benefits prove the inherent value and efficacy of the benefits if they do not revolt and demand the benefits be taken away from them. It is upon this epiphany that Michael makes his case.
It therefore follows, that when the hood goes rioting and cleans out the Nike store and flat screen TV store that they do not intend to return the items to the previous owners because of the “law of benefits and free stuff.”
How come when I ask a liberal to explain the effects of QE on the middle class, the poor and the wealthy I can never get answer, yet they continue to scream about income inequality?
How come when I ask a liberal, who hates insurance companies and corporate welfare, to explain the effects of the risk corridor on ObamaCare, all I get are blank stares?
Tnns, 47 million on food stamps. Perhaps you believe that those folks prefer to to rely on food stamps. Perhaps you believe that certain corporate farm interests in Texas are leading a charge to eliminate food stamps. Perhaps you believe as well that the average farm hand in Texas is claiming one of the jobs that has made Mr Perry a candidate for president in 2008 and a near term choice for man of the year.
If the minimum wage was increased to $15 per hour, a significant number would be released from the food stamp rolls. And if you have paid attention to any of the bureau of labor reports you have a better grasp of the number who are 25 or more and working for minimum wage (or very near it).
Tnns, the matter of QE is well above your salary class. It has next to nothing to do with the lives of men and women who work for a living. And absolutely nothing to do with the fact that many men and women earn middle class income even though the middle class has been declining since the middle 1970s.
heliotrope, if I had capitalized goods as Goods you would more easily comprehend, right, that the elimination of the insurance company prerogative: too bad so sad you have a pre-existing condition–is a Good. Also, knowing of the value that Maine placed on elimination of the right, it does seem to me that any right-minded conservative would have demanded the rule for the nation. And anyone who admires the ways that WalMart treats its associates must be able to tell others of the ways that his or her employer has adopted the same policies. Or perhaps explain why not.
Do you mean to argue, heliotrope, that the gay conservative community would prefer that men and women who do not have health insurance continue to live without health insurance? That in fact a bankruptcy is good for the common American worker or family? That there is dignity in death if one does not have health insurance to cover the costs of prostate cancer or ovarian cancer?
Good golly, Michael, you sure do have trouble developing a cogent thought.
Apparently, you are stating that covering pre-existing conditions is a “good” as in the differentiation between good and evil in the field of morality. Fine. Ethics is my professional field, so I would be glad to hear your argument, if you can form one.
Also, apparently, you are not fundamentally knowledgeable about how insurance works and the process of laying odds on risk pools. Where you live and where you park your car has a huge influence on the premium prices you will get from the auto insurers. You can add the risk of owning the most sought after ghetto target and your premiums will sky-rocket.
Now, if a political party crams a law down the throats of the country that forces insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and keeps them from denying insurance for pre-existing conditions, that risk is going to spread across all of the insured people and it will increase all of the premiums as a result.
That is pretty basic, but it is impossible to tell what your level of knowledge is and what your ability to comprehend might be.
I don’t begin to understand what you are trying to communicate in your reference to a “rule” every right-minded conservative would demand for the nation.
Remind me of what I have said about admiring the way WalMart treats its associates.
Remind me of what I have said about the gay community and people in said community not having insurance. Then remind me of what I have said about bankruptcy and workers and …… dignity of dying or prostate or ovarian cancer.
Now, let me switch to dealing briefly with all of these topics you have raised, but I did not.
Where are the people with ovarian cancer or prostrate cancer, gay or not, who are dying for lack of medical care? They must be stacking them like cordwood somewhere in the country. Where is the mainstream media and Obamacare tragedy vultures and victim parrots on this. It would seem that they would be running death chyrons like they did for military deaths during the Bush administration. These people abandoned to die have to be as big a story as Katrina in New Orleans was.
Where are you getting your up to date statistics of people being driven to bankruptcy by hospitals and doctors? I would like to look them over.
I note with no scintilla of surprise that your response did not reference the points I raised in my comments. You are still flailing away without the benefit of logic.
heliotrope, do you believe that men and women who do not have health insurance exist in America? And that some percent of them must by unalterable rules die each year as a result of any number of diseased body parts but certainly prostate or ovary? And do you also believe that no Americans are forced to choose bankruptcy when medical bills are more than they can pay?
You do reveal a kind of failure to understand the moral victory that is PPACA and credited to the Democrats in House and Senate in your assessment. The legislation that was approved was online for months; was presented in committee hearings for amendments by either party; was presented from House to Senate for hearings and amendments. And in the end approved of in the American Way.
And if you do not know that every insured American has paid a surcharge within premium costs in order to cover the poorest, at least, of the uninsured, you are not as up to the mark as your clients might think.
ND30, in #41, you mention a black journalist, but fail to mention that the funeral was in 2007. What fevered insight produces a connection to Mr Obama? And what in that local issue elevates it to a national issue?
By the way, your link for pregnancies had nothing to do with Dallas. You have work to do before you sleep.
I take it Michael, that you have never signed the front of an employee paycheck. Because if you did, you would know that due to taxes and government regulations, an employer is paying roughly 2 to 3 dollars for every one dollar they actually hand to an employee. This means that somebody who is making $7 dollars an hour would be making 15 to 20 dollars an hour if the government wasn’t stealing it before it reaches them.
Juan, is it your contention that the employer does not deduct the costs of business from its tax reports according to provisions of governmental tax policy?
Have you seen reports that a company who has stopped providing a subsidy to a health plan previously provided to an employee has added that amount to the employee’s pay check?
I wonder if I can see a source for your conclusion?
Note the idiocy of Mikey’s ‘rebuttals’
“I work in an hospital and I can tell you…”
“I work in the insurance industry and I can tell you…”
“I work in a business and I can tell you…”
Mikey’s reply is “You’re all wrong, because.”
Micheal, Michael, Michael… Do you believe you can fly? Do you believe you can touch the sky? Is it your contention that babbling and pretending to be smart is an effective means of communication? Do you have a reference for that? Do you think about it every night and day?
Loved the “above my salary” remark… Very pajama boy of you.
Now, please provide us with a reference to the company that you own that pays all of your employees at least $15 per hour, provides full insurance for each employee, their partners/spouses (no matter how many) and their dependants. Please be sure to point us to your company’s sustainability program (showing a zero carbon footprint) and your two year paid maturity/paternity leave program. We would also like to see your payroll records to prove that no executive makes more than 5x the lowest paid employee. Please also provide us with a work schedule to prove that each employee enjoys 6 weeks of paid leave annually. Now, if you can’t do that… Shut the hell up about a livable wage!
Please go and touch the sky.
Your believe that QE does not effect the middle class shows your contention is what you believe that perhaps you are COMPLETELY wrong. Do you have a reference for that?
I assume you have no problem with Mr. Buffett using the government’s free money to increase his wealth by $12.5 billion but you would be outraged if the Koch brothers did the same.
You do realize that many union contracts are based on wages as a percent over minimum wage. Increased minimum wages increases union wages. Increased union wages increase union dues. Increased union dues increase union political contributions. Now, isn’t there a pretty big mid-term election coming up? Haha… And you thought your POS POTUS cared about the little guy.
Do you believe you can fly?
Michael.. is it your contention and believe that a 28 male making minimum wage has not made a series of wrong life decisions? If so, please provide a reference for that conclusion.
Haha….I think you have invented a new language : peejayish.
There are men and women in American who do not have health insurance: Many are illegally in the country. Many are young and frisky and choose not to have health insurance. Some can not afford health insurance, but would buy it if they could. Some can not afford to pay the high health insurance premium price because of their specific health picture and can not afford to pay for health care out of pocket.
Since Obamacare was passed into law with no public hearings, public input, any availability for even members of Congress to hold the law in their hands for as much as five seconds prior to the vote, there is no record of where the statistics of the above circumstances may fall.
Well insured and uninsured alike die of these medical problems. Correlation is not causation. It is up to you to show the people with diseased body parts who died because of a lack of health insurance. [Hint: you can’t find them.]
Bankruptcy is a wonderful mechanism for the person who declares it from being wiped out and turned into a debtor form of peonage. You should look it up. Among the many reasons people declare bankruptcy, medical bills would certainly be one.
This is an unadulterated fairy tale. If any part of this were true, the computer trail to substantiate it would be enormous. Please link to the portal an scholar would open to explore this wonderland of Constitutional propriety. I am not talking about linking to Media Matters talking points, I am referring to the calendar of hearings, the meetings, the reports and all the other minutiae that the typical reworking of welfare legislation would receive.
I spent many years on a hospital board. There is a sophisticated set of calculations in which the hospital assesses the Emergency Room costs and breaks them down by reimbursed, partially reimbursed, paid in cash and written off. Then, those patients who were admitted are tracked to to determine the same disposition of payments made or written off.
Health insurance companies must have hospitals to send their insured subscribers to for service. Therefore, insurance companies work their premiums to the solid customers to include helping the hospitals cover their losses. (Just like you pay a price for broccoli at the supermarket that covers pilferage, damage and overall losses at the grocery store.)
If you went to a hospital last year and paid cash out of pocket and had the temerity to go to the accounting department first, your bill might have been reduced by as much as 40%. The bookkeeping computer programs are able to assess where the hospital is at the moment in terms of working at or above the break even point. (Obamacare is such a mess that hospitals are starting to drop out from taking insured all together. I am up to my ears in looking at restructuring schemes.)
For many years, federal law has required hospitals to take on all emergency room patients without regard to the patient’s ability to pay. Obviously, schemes had to follow for the providers of health care to cover costs. Michelle Obama worked for a hospital caught up in patient dumping, which is a scheme to avoid the law.
I can not wait to read all about how Public Law 111-148 was transparent, vetted in committee, reconciled for differences and available in all of its 2400 pages to all members of Congress according to the rules of each house before it was passed.
Whew! This at #52:
Michael, you are s-o-o-o-o confused.
An employee receives a wage/salary. The employer pays half of the FICA and Medicare tax from his stash and deducts half of the FICA and Medicare tax from the employee’s actual pay which results in the number commonly called “take home pay.” In addition, the employer pays into workman’s compensation, unemployment, etc. at no reduction to the employee’s take home pay.
Employers lure employees with “benefit” carrots which may include partial payments to full payment of health insurance. The employee is NOT required to participate in any benefit. If the employer asks you to drive your company truck to and from work, you can tell him “Hell no, I want to drive my own car and pay for the gas and risk the parking lot measles when I park it.”
However, if your employer says he is going to have you park the truck in the company lot at the end of each day, you can’t demand that he give you a ride home and a ride into work or cover the costs of your commute.
You really need to go down to your state employment bureau and play these fantasies out with them before you go off on a crusade. When you graduate from middle school, you might ask your high school career counselor to clue you in on how this stuff works.
Actually, we have an excellent grasp.
4.7% of all hourly workers, with that representing about 3% among hourly workers over the age of 25.
So nowhere near your Occupy Obama Party screams of “everyone”.
LOL.
So Michael will continue to support politicians whose policies destroy jobs, and then will cite rising unemployment as proof that we need more of the policies that got us into this mess.
“free stuff until there’s nothing left to steal”
@58.. so 97% of workers over 25 made a series of good life choices to make more than minimum wage. Of course, we have to level the playing field for the 3% who ditched classes in high school, who got pregnant while in high school, who got fired for going to work late because 420 made them sleepy or they stayed up all night playing the latest Hollywood sanctioned mega-violent video game. Yup, that sounds right in liberal land.
I wonder how many minimum wage earners over 28 take a practicallly free continuing ed class at the local high school to show their employer they are trying to improve themselves and therefore have earned a raise. I had one such employee. I helped her with her homework, suggested other educational materials. She is now the finance manager at a concrete plant. That is how you make more money. You bring value to your employer not attitude.
Also, from the link at 58. Half of the employees over 25 who make minimum wage or less arw most likely compensated by tips, bringing their real wages above minimum wage. Therefore, only 1.5% of workers over 25 are compensated at minimum wage.
If 5% of people losing their insurance due to Obamacare was an insignificant number, 1.5% of workers over 25 is a miniscule number that does not deserve our attention.
TnnsNe1,
It has long been my observation that 90% of the secret to long employment is showing up on time with a good attitude.
As I talk with managers wide and far they mostly agree with the observation. It is not all that hard to fix your mind at “this is where I am and this is what I do.” Even when you get goat roped, it doesn’t mean all your options have been shut out.
I am not belittling the pain of high unemployment in some regions. But our slow economy is not going to be pumped up one iota by raising the minimum wage. These trickle up people are just nuts.
RunningRN- how did you become a conservative gay healthcare worker and not find your way to a “Country Club” Hospital. Are you doing the healthcare traveler thing? Country Club hospital patients tend to comply with their care plans. I had to work at an inner city hospital for years to shake being liberal. Just imagine the 30 day rule and the same homeless men(who cant go to a shelter due to their crime Hx) spending most of cold nights in ER waiting room as patients with minor chief complaints.
Hey Steve@2:47, you guys have a big tent here–I love this blog despite not being gay. 🙂 I have been a nurse since 1986. I worked less than 1 year on a medical floor in a hospital just a few miles south of Philadelphia. I’ve been in the O.R. since then (private scrub and general surgery now cardiac for the past 18). I’m working part-time now (the call was a driving force to making that decision as well as some political stuff at our hospital).
I am a 9/11 Republican–I was never a Democrat or engaged in politics at all until that happened. Although SEIU is our Union at our hospital, I am grandfathered out (because I wasn’t a member when we became a closed shop). If I ever quit and went back, I’d be forced to join (so a good reason to stay on part time).
It’s funny, but this Obamacare thing is starting to piss some of my co-workers (who are Democrats) off. Not only have we seen our premiums and co-pays go up, but we are also being dinged on the 30 day rule (people who have gotten post-op infections that neglected their wound care, also there’s been a guy who didn’t go to dialysis post-op as instructed and ended up being readmitted).
What kind of nursing do you do? I am actually at the point where I’m getting kind of disgusted with the whole thing and am contemplating a career change. Not sure what. Luckily, I have a very supportive hubby.