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From your article..seems any increase is a major hit to min wage part time workers.
To them..every penny does count.
Also looks like Walmart changed who can get covered. Used to be at 24 hours you were offered insurance but they upped it to 30 hours.
Hope they now go ahead and give those people the hours so they can stay covered if they want.
From OP link:
Barbara Andridge, who works at the Walmart store in Placerville, Calif., decided to drop out of a Wal-Mart plan provided for the retailer by a health management organization — when she found out that the cost was set to nearly double to $60 a month. The Wal-Mart HMO plans can be more expensive than Wal-Mart's own.
"Sixty dollars isn't a lot to some people, but when I have to think about buying winter clothes for my kids or sending my daughter to college I have to think of what is best for my children," she said. "Hopefully I'm making the right decision."
Did you totally miss that, or did you do it on purpose?
One cheap crybaby who wants publicity, who's dodged giving his employees benefits by scheduling them 29 hours a week is in no way, shape, or form indicative of a pervasive and waiting implosion.
You know whose business isn't going to take a financial hit? Mine, because I've always treated my employees fairly and given them benefits!! It's better for my business if my employees perform well. Performance tends to be better if you have one dedicated 40-hour/week person than two 20-hour/week people who need to juggle their time, attention, and dedication between two or three jobs to make end's meet. I wish that cheapos like the Applebee's "CEO" would realize how much they're wasting with their greedy and lazy habits. My company reaps benefits in return clientele and increased cost-to-value, largely as a result of having a good staff.
From your article..seems any increase is a major hit to min wage part time workers.
To them..every penny does count.
Also looks like Walmart changed who can get covered. Used to be at 24 hours you were offered insurance but they upped it to 30 hours.
Hope they now go ahead and give those people the hours so they can stay covered if they want.
From OP link:
Barbara Andridge, who works at the Walmart store in Placerville, Calif., decided to drop out of a Wal-Mart plan provided for the retailer by a health management organization — when she found out that the cost was set to nearly double to $60 a month. The Wal-Mart HMO plans can be more expensive than Wal-Mart's own.
"Sixty dollars isn't a lot to some people, but when I have to think about buying winter clothes for my kids or sending my daughter to college I have to think of what is best for my children," she said. "Hopefully I'm making the right decision."
Why doesn't she just swich back to the other ins. plan in the open enrollment period?
Democrats are very well-skilled at killing jobs, and that's been the case for decades, with ObamaCare being the latest boneheaded example.
Given Obama's hostility to HSA as well as a desire to raise that 7.5% figure to 10%, it's also pretty obbvious the Democrats aren't the party of the middle class and/or the little guy, and haven't been for decades.
Personal disposable income has grown nearly 6 times more under Democratic presidents
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown 7 times more under Democratic presidents
Corporate profits have grown over 16% more per year under Democratic presidents (they actually declined under Republicans by an average of 4.53%/year)
Average annual compound return on the stock market has been 18 times greater under Democratic presidents (If you invested $100k for 40 years of Republican administrations you had $126k at the end, if you invested $100k for 40 years of Democrat administrations you had $3.9M at the end)
Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents
The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations
Nice try though, unfortunatly for you, history is on our side.
Applebee's is in Canada and doesn't cry about paying for universal health care there? Why do they wine about it here?
Do businesses directly pay for their employee's healthcare in Canada?
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