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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsInsurance coverage a "courtesy" that "everyone else" is paying for? NO. It's part of MY wages.
A fine STFU for all those who have one iota of "Well, Rush has a point" under or on their breath:
Shame on you, America, for your failure to recognize your female population as a group of citizens with the right to self-determination. Shame on you for tolerating blowhards and pompous dictators with crosses on their chests.
I received an ignorant comment just now, and I havent posted it because theres enough vile refuse floating in the public sphere as it is. But suffice to say that it boiled down to this:
Dont tell the government to stay out of your reproductive choices and then demand that everyone else pay for you to have sex.
My commenter is far from alone in this sentiment. In fact, she echoes Rush Limbaugh and all the other drooling windbags who think taxpayers are somehow being bled dry for the pleasures of others, of women, as though there is something about women that sets them apart from the former category. I have news for you, self-righteous cowards.
Women ARE taxpayers. Women ARE workers. Women EARN their health care every day of the year. If you think for a hot second that a health insurance package is a mere courtesy bestowed on you by a kindly employer, I pity you for sipping the antifreeze so willingly. Do you realize who is really benefiting from that freedom of conscience you so raucously defend? It isnt you, thats for sure. You have just given away your rights to decent employment, by framing health insurance as a sort of largess sprinkling down from the corporate king. How easily you sell away your own labors, your own bodies, pretending you havent given up your choices because you pay out of pocket. Thinking youre the harder worker because youve agreed to accept less than what youre due. No, Im afraid that doesnt make you heroic. It makes you dreadfully, painfully gullible.
Health insurance is part of earned income. When a woman takes a job, she is offered a health insurance package in addition to her paycheck as compensation for her work. Do I hear you saying thats entitled? How droll. A workman is worthy of his hire, isnt he (1 Timothy 5:18, for those who like references)? Why isnt a working woman worthy of receiving the fruits of her labor?
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Loudmxr
(1,405 posts)Yeah right name me one company that will limit my insurance coverage for more money in my wages.
I can tell you right now there is no company that pays the HUGE amount of money I pay for my health care as an independent contractor.
Just get him off of AFR and I will be temporarily happy.
I will out live him, I think.
That was said with the Don LaFontain voice.
Love you Don
area51
(11,940 posts)But we've still got to change health care as a basic human right in the US and decouple it from our jobs, so when you change jobs or lose a job, you keep your health care.
Even jobs that come with health care are getting scarcer; I think it's in the 60% range and dropping.
We need single payer health care.
socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)Here's some logic:
If employees expend energy and tax their physical systems why shouldn't the employer pay for health insurance to keep the body in "working order" just like they pay for repairs of their trucks and motor fleet.
Health care is getting more expensive - There is the problem!
We need to look at what is making health care and health insurance so expensive and get the numbers back in line.
This is just another example of the greed of the hospitals, insurance companies and the cost of malpractice insurance for physicians.
Note:If the workers salaries have been level for the past 35 years why can't corporations have used the savings to put toward health insurance?
madmom
(9,681 posts)upwards of $75 an hour? Why were their benefits considered part of their wages then, but not now? Hypocrisy showing again
Vincardog
(20,234 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)Who are these assholes that think they have the right to dictate our compensation?