Out of touch with reality..... Florida House GOP

Well guys the truth is I manage a corporation. We don't have a thousand employees but only ten full time employees. This is lost on anyone who only listens to the media and thinks a corporation is only similar to IBM, Apple or Monsanto.

Every year I go through the new health insurance rates provided by United Health Care. Because of the excessive hikes in cost we have not given a raise to anyone in five years. This being said we gave the workers a choice (by the way this includes me since I am on the insurance with family) of a yearly raise or insurance coverage. Our company pays 100% of the cost to insure each employee with family or single. There are no monthly payments, all cost is picked up by the company.

In the last five years I have seen the cost go up $900 - 1,800 per year per employee for the same existing coverage. Our average price is $9,300 per employee. Twice in the last five years we have renewed the enrollment on Jan.1 to only have UHC cancel the coverage twenty days later and demand an additional 5-7% upon the agreed on price. This being said we are scared to death with Obama care and will continue our policy of providing health care paid by the company.

The investors who live in Italy with socialized medicine said it would be cruel and inhumane to leave the health of its workers to the government because of what they have experienced first hand in Europe...

So in our case the employer "does" manage the health care cost and share our cost down to the invoice with the employees so everyone understands the reality.

 

So Ralph as you so deeply understand the ever rising costs of healthcare ( sometimes in mid-contract ) ... what do you think of your state legislators grandstanding and/or setting policy for the rest of us Floridians when they themselves have virtually free healthcare for themselves and their families?

I do not think they are qualified to decide for me and my family what is best when it comes to dealing with the crisis.

 

So Dave...

WHO IS QUALIFIED?

I'm not saying yea, or nay on the Florida Leg, I'm just curios to hear who you think SHOULD make that decision for EVERYONE???

 

Scott I just would like to see the people involved in our governement really and truly understand the financial burden that healthcare is placing on our society today.

With nothing invested personally it's easy to say trite ******** things about the fact that some people just do not have the means..... cannot afford healthcare and it's easy to pass up federal assistance money for those in need of healthcare who do not have it and it's easy to poke disdain across the aisle at a healthcare plan devised by the opposition while your own side of the aisle has nothing of substance to offer as a remedy for the ongoing crisis.

I have to be on my wife's healthcare plan which costs about half or slightly less than half of what my own employer offers but even so.... I initially used her insurance cards at the hospital when I injured my leg back in Nov. and fortunately for me it turned out to be a workman's comp issue instead because my own insurance would have cost me thousands of dollars in deductibles and co-pays.

It opened my eyes to the true personal cost financially of being hurt or injured and I can tell you that even with a coverage policy that by today's standards is pretty normal it is still an enormous burden of expense to a family when healthcare is required.

I would like to see our politicians face that same burden.... have that same pain in the wallet when they truly and urgently need health services. Until they can see what damage our present system wreaks on an American family they will continue to throw jabs across the aisle and maintain a laisse-faire attitude..... a "what's the big deal" mentality about a solution to our nation's healthcare crisis.

 

Our politicians have no incentive to change things because they play by a completely different set of rules. We treat them like royalty when all they really are are employees that we can hire and fire.

We just don't get it.

 

They are like board members of a large corporation.....every day distancing themselves financially from the worker bees with unrealistic bonuses and golden parachutes to the point where what they actually do or don't accomplish doesn't really matter to their well being and quality of life.