How many people in USofA are now excluded from Healthcare? Why are they excluded? Who is responsible for this apparently increasing exclusion from Healthcare? President Bush, is able to "donate" 40 Billion US$ to certain countries in the Middle East, in the form of weapons of mass destruction. Does this "donation" affect withdrawal of Healthcare from the people?
2007-09-24 22:58:02 · 9 answers · asked by stainless steven 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Unions have NOT killed the US, CEOs Golden Parachutes, out of control upper and executive pay,outsourcing and stagnate wages have killed the Middle Class Dreams.
2007-09-25 00:52:11 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Tomak 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Costs keep going up higher and higher to support the war in Iraq. Following cost rises comes a rise in wages. This is pretty much how inflation works. Government spends too much and inflation goes up so it looks like it turns out to be less and we all pay for it. The companies try to cut costs by lowering benefits so they can pay the higher wages. Often the union will accept lower benefits so people can make an inflated wage to cover living costs. But other times companies and even governments will lower benefits to either use the money to pay off debts or make a profit. How many people without health care is quite high. Many people now have reduced health care benefits as in an HMO vs PPO or long term care, etc.
2007-09-25 09:37:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jeebus Krist! I read some of the responses! Union greed is ruining America? And corporate greed is making the world turn. Sound reasoning there.
GM has offered something like $40,000,000,000 to finance they're health care costs. So, let me understand this, a major corporation in the US has supplied 40 billion to secure health care, but the US government doesn't want to contribute one cent? Is it because that forty billion can finance another 40 weeks of war in Iraq?
Until the guys in Washington can figure out how to get their cut by providing some sort of universal health care program it won't happen.
2007-09-29 21:17:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The GM strike will affect me as a railroad employee that services GM.
Did you know steel workers used to get 13 weeks vacation!! Greed in the unions killed a lot of businesses, and so did greedy CEOs with Enron, etc. The rich get richer, the unions fight the wrong fight most times too. We as a people, always manage to F up something every time.
2007-09-25 08:30:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kelly A 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Union has turned it's back on many of the smaller places in America today. My daughter works for a subsidary to a auto firm, making the very parts at $8.00 an hour an Union man and regular Auto worker gets $28.00 an hour for sitting on his can and putting on the car. She has to pay her own insurance that the company kicks in a small part after three years, she has to pay her own dental.
Another daughter does the same thing. After retiring, I tried it, I worked Union all my life, this was a Union shop but, you could never find, or contact a Union representative, they simply didn't exsist in these parts of the auto industry.
After some looking around, Wal-Mart was in the same catagory, the people there had to work forever before they were covered. They also had a policy, If you were injured, you were all done at Wal-Mart, they had a way to get rid of you.
America treats it's smaller workers and it's retires like crap. They will spend millions in wars for 'naught and for other countries, they will run to the aide of others in earthquakes but, they will let it's own citizens suffer in poverty, they will let it's retirees go without medication due to high prices.
I have to have heart medications, my co-pay brings it to over $800.00 a month, I get $950.00 a month in social security, my wife $650.00 our expences $1250.00 with food. Do you want to do the math?
I spent two tours in 'Nam for my country, wounded twice, ten years in the service, this is what I got for it, Thank you Mr. Bush.
2007-09-25 06:44:18 · answer #5 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Once upon a time everyone had to pay for there own medical coverage. now someone else pays it for you. Yes the goverment ( Rep & Dem ) throw too much money to other countries whether it be weapons or food when there are plenty of people in our own backyard starving and sick. why cant we take care of our own citizens first?
2007-10-01 19:39:40 · answer #6 · answered by goldenslick7774 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
43 million out of 300 million have no health care at all
2007-10-02 21:33:40 · answer #7 · answered by Maxi Robespierre 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you are realising the US is going broke at last.
2007-09-28 16:03:46 · answer #8 · answered by country bumpkin [sheep nurse] 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its the union and greed that is killing this countrys might...
Health care is just one spoke in the bigger wheel...
2007-09-25 06:01:21 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋