Accepting the accuracy of your information, one thing is clear, (Reply #52)

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Mon Jan 21, 2013, 10:49 PM

JDPriestly (57,936 posts)

52. Accepting the accuracy of your information, one thing is clear,

our privatized health insurance system costs the poor and middle classes far more than we realize.

The CEOs have good health insurance. A lot of working people don't have any health insurance coverage at all, and if they get a little coverage through their work, it doesn't cover their families. That is not always true, but increasingly it is. And worst, the lowest paid people are the least likely to receive health care insurance.

There is no way to get around the absolutely disgusting disparity between the salaries of high- compared to low-paid employees in the US. No way around it.

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56 replies	Author	Time	Post
Does anyone else have a problem with this? [View all]	Playinghardball	Jan 2013	OP
Not really	NoOneMan	Jan 2013	#1
sorry to hear this	mettamega	Jan 2013	#19
The numbers are now what, 9-10 years old?	Igel	Jan 2013	#31
Median income fell last year (& has been falling). So no, 'middle class compensation' hasn't	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	#32
Accepting the accuracy of your information, one thing is clear,	JDPriestly	Jan 2013	#52
pretty disgusting, isn't it?	niyad	Jan 2013	#2
Yeah, totally.	LisaLynne	Jan 2013	#3
K/R (nt)	NYC_SKP	Jan 2013	#4
wow	sad-cafe	Jan 2013	#5
What's the source of the info? If true, that stinks. How did this happen?	Honeycombe8	Jan 2013	#6
They're not bailing out wall street and corrupt banks and allowing capitalism to take its	Fire Walk With Me	Jan 2013	#7
Source (2005):	moondust	Jan 2013	#11
It is actually down from that, for US CEOs ...	SomeGuyInEagan	Jan 2013	#47
Well, that makes it all fine then.	Curmudgeoness	Jan 2013	#49
Yep.	Brigid	Jan 2013	#8
Not only are they not paying attention....	ReRe	Jan 2013	#17
Yeah nt	abelenkpe	Jan 2013	#9
I remember when the Japanese brought this up as an American mistake. We didn't learn.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#10
Brilliant FDR speech. Thanks for the link.	SunSeeker	Jan 2013	#12
Different generation, not as hard talking as in the past. We're always trying to be neutral as a way	freshwest	Jan 2013	#16
I totally agree with you. I think his heart is there. And he is as frustrated as we are. nt	SunSeeker	Jan 2013	#20
Thanks, I have seen it for a long time.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#41
That was FDR's 2nd Inaugural Speech, right?	ReRe	Jan 2013	#23
They won't give him any credit - but he blew them away today, didn't he?	freshwest	Jan 2013	#42
Oh, he did...	ReRe	Jan 2013	#45
That's what happens when you bail out Wall Street and ignore Main Street	davidn3600	Jan 2013	#13
and this is what happens when people vote in pro-corporate, anti-labor legislators in both parties	antigop	Jan 2013	#22
Or stay home as some did in 2010.	freshwest	Jan 2013	#43
"Number of working poor families grows as wealth gap widens"	Fire Walk With Me	Jan 2013	#14
And those same rich US CEOs want to force the rest of us to retire later	supertascha	Jan 2013	#15
I think their intent is	2naSalit	Jan 2013	#26
And they won't hire people over 49!	Amonester	Jan 2013	#28
How do you fix it? None of those CEOs will take a pay cut without a fight.	tclambert	Jan 2013	#18
Immediately eliminate the "Citizens United" ruling. Immediately reinstate Glass-Steagall.	Fire Walk With Me	Jan 2013	#25
Sounds like a plan. nt	Comrade_McKenzie	Jan 2013	#33
That sounds about right	They_Live	Jan 2013	#44
That approach worked very well in Iceland - Google it.	xtraxritical	Jan 2013	#55
oh I have a BIG problem with it.	BlancheSplanchnik	Jan 2013	#21
The only problem I have with it is...	ReRe	Jan 2013	#24
Any entity that is ir has been called	2naSalit	Jan 2013	#27
who won uhhhhhmerican idol?	datasuspect	Jan 2013	#29
Yeah, "it's the union's fault"	mountain grammy	Jan 2013	#30
But CEO'S work 475 times harder than the average worker!	Wednesdays	Jan 2013	#34
HAHAHAHAHA	LibDemAlways	Jan 2013	#40
I've been unemployed for 6 months (I did have 3 months of severance)...	lexw	Jan 2013	#35
The CEO or management screw ups - that are the reason for	LibDemAlways	Jan 2013	#37
See? American exceptionalism	Kablooie	Jan 2013	#36
It's OBSCENE.	forestpath	Jan 2013	#38
Pretty good deal if you are the CEO	stultusporcos	Jan 2013	#39
wonder where finlind is in that	PatrynXX	Jan 2013	#46
All thatmoney they get should have been disbursed to the share holders.	Auntie Bush	Jan 2013	#48
Actually, it should go into payroll....	Spitfire of ATJ	Jan 2013	#53
CEOs not only get paid 475 times as much, but only a minuscule portion of that pay is subject to	indepat	Jan 2013	#50
Go USA !!! Go USA !!! Go USA !!!	RKP5637	Jan 2013	#51
Of course	iandhr	Jan 2013	#54
My ass chapped off many years ago.	lonestarnot	Jan 2013	#56

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