U.S. firms plan healthcare coverage cuts

lovuian

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Fri Apr-07-06 12:17 AM
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U.S. firms plan healthcare coverage cuts

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=cd1445a53ff80381

Rising healthcare costs are dampening plans by U.S. businesses to hire new employees and give pay raises during the next six months.

A survey of small and mid-sized businesses by PNC Financial Services Group Inc. released Thursday also found that nearly six of 10 employers intend to cut healthcare coverage in the future.
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Corporations have HUGE profits and can't pay for healthcare...

We need Universal Health ... we need it NOW!!!

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Erika

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Fri Apr-07-06 12:39 AM
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1. The Good-bye to the middle class

and health care to needy Americans. The U.S. Government exists now for only military purposes.

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Journeyman

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Fri Apr-07-06 02:13 AM
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2. I realized 25 years ago corporate America could not sustain . . .

the promises it had made to previous generations and that my generation would have to do things differently.

I don't know what the answers are but they won't be found among the Corpos. As a society, we can extract what we need from the Corpos but they won't provide it freely. It's like depending on a Corporation's beneficence to reduce pollution and clean up after itself -- it isn't going to happen. So I believe the sooner we look away from them for anything other than a tax base the better off we'll all be. As lovuian declares, We need Universal health care and we need it now.

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physioex

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Fri Apr-07-06 02:27 AM
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3. Universal.....Yes...

But I don't think that is likely from the Federal level. It's time the states start to pick up the slack and something about this mess......

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unhappycamper

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Fri Apr-07-06 05:20 AM
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4. I detected a rise in my (retirement) heath care costs last month.

My monthly payments went from $106 to $277. Verizon sucks. :thumbsdown:

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leesa

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Fri Apr-07-06 11:01 AM
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5. No!! Really?!! But huge tax cuts have made it possible for them to afford

all of this...Bush said so just two days ago.

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