Socially Offensive Freeloading: MA Style
Posted by Raven on 1st June 2008
A lot of people cite the “universal” health care mandate in the state of Massachusetts as being revolutionary; it’s being viewed as a model for other states. Businesses don’t view it as anything but a burden and the state wants to increase this.
The state’s bill for providing healthcare to employees of large companies increased 14 percent in the last fiscal year, to $636 million, according to a report released yesterday.
The state report shows that while healthcare reform has extended coverage to thousands of people in Massachusetts, many employers still rely on state programs to provide healthcare benefits for their workers. The findings also underscore what is likely to become the next battle in the ongoing implementation of healthcare reform: getting employers to contribute more toward health insurance, even for part timers and seasonal help.
“There are a lot of companies that have set up their employment-benefit systems so the state pays for their workers’ healthcare,” said Brian Rosman, research director for Health Care for All, an advocacy group that helped establish the healthcare reform law. “They ought to pay some of the freight.”
Pay more? Gee whiz. What do we suppose can happen here with all this? What happens when these companies close shop and move out of MA (to NH as many are doing every single week)…
…the law also established a minimum standard under which a company would be deemed to provide a “reasonable” contribution to healthcare coverage - if 25 percent of a company’s employees enrolled in a company plan or if the firm paid 35 percent of the premiums. Those that didn’t meet that threshold must pay $295 per employee into a pool for the uninsured.
Yesterday, some advocates said the Patrick administration should raise those levels, so companies have to contribute more or pay the annual fee.
Massachusetts is learning, quickly, that $295.00 is not sufficient. A lot of people TOLD them this ahead of time but did they listen? NO.
“The administration has to raise the threshold,” said the Rev. Hurmon Hamilton, president of the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and pastor of Roxbury Presbyterian Church. “It is socially offensive for Wal-Mart to be making millions of dollars in Massachusetts and have employees who facilitate that profit be kept healthy by the state. That’s what I call freeloading.”
Socially offensive? Go bite yourself Reverend. YOU’RE socially offensive for even suggesting this. Does this idiOt consider the amount of money Wal Mart pays in ALL the other taxes- to the local communities, the state? I would venture to guess he has no damn clue. As for freeloading? Bullfucking shit.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, is the top company on the list. The state found 5,021 Wal-Mart employees used state health coverage at a cost of nearly $14 million in the 12 months ended June 30, 2007. That includes care provided to dependents of employees, but does not count employees without Social Security numbers.
Now who do we suppose has no SS number? Hmm. Every baby born in the US must get their SS numbers before they reach age 1; parents of newborns are sent home from every hospital with the required paperwork to start the application process for the number. Do we have to SPELL this out? Are we talking about forcing businesses to provide health insurance for….illegal immigrants?? I think so. That’s what this is all about. Let’s talk about freeloaders, Reverend. He, and others like him, want us to
consider health care as a service owed to citizens without regard to their ability to pay for it. Instead, charging businesses and others the costs is preferred. They’re going to push companies right out of the state if they keep this up. Then who pays???
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