Insurance coverage a "courtesy" that "everyone else" is paying for? NO. It's part of MY wages.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

A fine STFU for all those who have one iota of "Well, Rush has a point" under or on their breath:

I am fed up. Truly, deeply fed up. I’m fed up with the arrogance and hypocrisy of the fools who think there’s honestly any reason to oppose women’s free access to birth control other than to eliminate our ability to determine our own destinies. And so I’m about to say something uncharacteristically angry. I don’t apologize for it and I offer no overtures of respect for the Right Wing zealots who think they hold the moral high ground on this issue.

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 haven’t posted it because there’s enough vile refuse floating in the public sphere as it is. But suffice to say that it boiled down to this:

“Don’t 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 isn’t you, that’s 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 haven’t given up your choices because you pay “out of pocket.” Thinking you’re the harder worker because you’ve agreed to accept less than what you’re due. No, I’m afraid that doesn’t 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 that’s “entitled”? How droll. A workman is worthy of his hire, isn’t he (1 Timothy 5:18, for those who like references)? Why isn’t a working woman worthy of receiving the fruits of her labor?

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http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/05/health-insurance-is-not-courtesy-it%E2%80%99s-wages

[Loudmxr]

1. Rush is right! I would be happy to get extra 10k-15k to pay for my insurance.

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]

2. Great op-ed

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]

6. A company repairs it's motorfleet - why not employees?

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]

3. Remember when the right wing kept insisting the auto workers were making

upwards of $75 an hour? Why were their benefits considered part of their wages then, but not now? Hypocrisy showing again

[Vincardog]

5. They count insurance vacation and retirement into their calculations, when it is convenient.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. Exactly. Right.

Who are these assholes that think they have the right to dictate our compensation?