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area51

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2. Great op-ed

Reply to ProfessionalLeftist (Original post)

Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:42 AM

Mar 2012

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.

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Insurance coverage a "courtesy" that "everyone else" is paying for? NO. It's part of MY wages. [View all] ProfessionalLeftist Mar 2012 OP

Rush is right! I would be happy to get extra 10k-15k to pay for my insurance. Loudmxr Mar 2012 #1

Great op-ed area51 Mar 2012 #2

A company repairs it's motorfleet - why not employees? socialindependocrat Mar 2012 #6

Remember when the right wing kept insisting the auto workers were making madmom Mar 2012 #3

They count insurance vacation and retirement into their calculations, when it is convenient. Vincardog Mar 2012 #5

Exactly. Right. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2012 #4