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Re: Good for Starbucks
Posted by **bon bon** on Aug 31, 2013 at 12:36:50 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Good for Starbucks posted by **Rumor** on Aug 29, 2013 at 3:12:59 PM:
**Although I applaud Starbuck's determination to keep their employee benefits intact, I find it a bit shallow because they are hardly a small business that will be directly affected by the implementation of Obamacare and it's Employer mandate.
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*Starbucks’ business lends itself to many part time employees. It would be easy for them to loophole themselves out of the law. They have decided to continue doing the right thing. After-all, Starbucks provides health insurance to all their employees who work 20 or more hours per week.
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**Small businesses will disappear and Obama putting the Employer mandate off for another year only delays the pain that comes ahead.
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*Small businesses have virtually already disappeared in America because of our very anti-capitalist monopoly laws that allow large corporations to gobble up small companies thus wiping out competition. Hello, WalMart!!!!
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*Most corporations will simply fit the new law into their business model as they understand it is the moral thing to do.
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*I can tell you one thing: It is time for the companies that intend to expand their benefits or companies that do not intend to go through hoops to penalize their employees by denying them the ability to get affordable healthcare through the company, to speak up. It is time for Americans to know which corporations are with the working middle class and which corporations are against the working middle class.
It's not even about the working middle class anymore, as the middle class in this country is disappearing. It's about the working poor. Is there any recognition among these anti-healthcare people that there is a huge population of Americans who are working full time earning wages that don't provide the basic necessities? These people are trying to earn an honest living without "sponging" off other peoples' taxes but they can't afford rent, food, child care. What do you think they do when their kid has an earache? They go to the ER, because the ER can't/won't turn them away. Do you think that's free? If so, you're delusional.
I have asked time and time again the same question: "Who do you think foots the bills for the uninsured in this country?" and no one has the balls to answer, because they *know* the truth. But to admit it negates their arguments. I could pull a murray here and start a thread challenging the anti-healthcare reform people to answer this simple question -- DEMAND an answer -- because I have yet to see an acknowledgement that what we have now costs ALL of us and is very "broken."
Talk about the ostrich effect. Maybe I *will* originate a thread after all.Followup Messages:
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