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Probably. This is one of the reasons it is often cheaper for US corporations to produce products in Europe than in the US. They don't have the burden of health care costs. I think the tide will be turning to a national health care system and many corporations will be for it for the reason stated in the ballot.
Amazes me that the rabid Unregulated Business gang continues to favor the archaic Healthcare on the Back of Business model. What are they thinking?
Then again, I guess the years of propoganda swallowing (it is evil Socialism) make it hard to actually judge something on its merits.
So, GM is doing their part to blame the victim for obscene healthcare costs?
The real culprit in the obscene healthcare and prescription drug costs in America are the HMO's and pharmaceutical manufacturers. These "evil business empires" have a choke-hold on our legislative processes (no saints here, it's both Dems and Repubs). Just about every legislator in Washington has received money from this industry. The industry calls it "lobbying," but it would better fit the dictionary definition of "bribery."
America has the highest hospital and prescription drug costs in the world, although we are the largest consumers of these services (which would, in a normal market equation, result in volume discounts and reduced costs to the consumer), and we are still getting hammered.
Even more disgusting is that these "evil industries" have convinced a majority of Americans that they need to make these outrageous profits so they can "fund research." Get the ... out of here. Fact, less than 5% of drug company costs are for R&D.
HMO's and drug companies are liars, thieves, and are bribing our legislators into submission while we whistle along and let big companies like GM tell us that the high cost of medical plans is damaging their "competitive advantage." Quit it, already!
People claim to be "shocked" by the Exxon scandal, and perhaps they should be. But a much, much larger conspiracy and rip-off is not being coordinated by the HMO's and drug companies. Most Americans are victims of this conspiracy.
There are signs of Americans waking up -- AARP is stirring this pot now, and getting a lot of heat for doing it -- and there will be an accounting.
These evil businesses who literally live off of the life, illness and death of our citizens imagine that this obscene drama will continue forever. They laugh so hard at us that they cannot hear the sound of the peasants outside their doors sharpening their pitchforks.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Health care should never be a question of ability to pay.
Being poor is already a handicap, without having no universal free healthcare.
Contrast it with the dirt cheap cost of petrol in the US, and it couldbe argued that a stiff rise on the duty on fuel could pay for some kind of national health system.
There are other ways of raises the necessary cash to pay for it, I just use the fuel tax as a good non direct tax measure.
Also reigning in the big drug companies with some anti trust laws could also make medicine cheaper.
Healthcare and other stupid union bills. Maybe GM should move operations to Pakistan, India, Brazil, or Mauritania where slave labor is rampant.
With 27 million slaves in the world today, why should a company pay for labor?
You're right pene, why should those Americans have jobs? It's not like Americans need them
by aya on Fri May 06, 05 10:17pm
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How funny, aya. LOL
Stealing is always wrong. Don't steal my money to pay for your care.
GM got pimped by the Japanese. Healthcare has very little to do with it.
Griffin, why should American Car companies pay wages when they could move overseas and impress labor in countries like Brazil, Pakistan, India, and Mauritania. All the western countries support those governments and India and Brazil are trying to get permanent UN Security Council status, so what the heck.
If slavery is good for the biggest, most populous nations why not us?
Back in 1970, a year before Canada switched from an employer-based, insurance company-administered health system like that in the United States to a national single-payer model, both countries were devoting about 7 percent of GDP to healthcare. Today, Canada devotes 9.1 percent of GDP to healthcare, while the United States devotes a whopping 15.1. Meanwhile, Canada boasts better health statistics and all of its citizens are fully covered, even for catastrophic illnesses like cancer or AIDS.
FiddleFagdle, Canada readily accepts immigrants. What difference does it make it Canada has universal healthcare?
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