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lumberjack_jeff

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11. This is a red herring.

Reply to Land Shark (Original post)

Fri Mar 2, 2012, 01:24 PM

Mar 2012

Your medical insurance is your medical insurance. The fact that the employer provides the pool of applicants to drive individual costs down is immaterial. The premiums the employers pay toward that insurance is compensation. It is what you are paid for working for them. It's not a gift.

You have insurance because you need it. Your employer provides it because he can provide the $500 of income you would otherwise need to buy it yourself for only $300. It's cheaper for him to provide it as a benefit than it would if employees demanded it as cash.

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RW meta-Talking Point: Those Who Pay Get to Control (Limbaugh, et al) is a Framing Trap [View all] Land Shark Mar 2012 OP

If 'those who pay, get to control', then I immediately demand the sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #1

Does he want pics of the proof that I am on bc pills for... MiniMe Mar 2012 #2

They don't want to discuss that Aerows Mar 2012 #4

The "authorities" are those who have money, under their viewpoint Land Shark Mar 2012 #15

Not sure why we aren't calling them FRIGHT Wingers Aerows Mar 2012 #16

Right wingers Aerows Mar 2012 #3

First of all, this idea that it's all "financial assistance"... Sparkly Mar 2012 #5

We Taxpayers Pay The Salaries Of These Repug Pols........ global1 Mar 2012 #6

The right to know already exists, but we have to distinguish privacy from publicly funded projects Land Shark Mar 2012 #7

Where they are heading with this bullshit is, if you recieve any gov monies, you dont vote. WingDinger Mar 2012 #8

Health insurance isn't necessarily "government monies." Sparkly Mar 2012 #9

Those who pay are Qualified to Control, Those who Receive are not. Voter = Controller Land Shark Mar 2012 #10

Those who pay, tell all others what is. WingDinger Mar 2012 #13

Or. "money rules" n/t Land Shark Mar 2012 #14

This is a red herring. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #11

I agree, but in responding to Limbaugh it's best not to fall into the red herring trap. n/t Land Shark Mar 2012 #12