A corporation's goal is to make money. If they offer fewer benefits to their employees, the quality employees find employment elsewhere, the company becomes less competitive in the marketplace and over time loses market share. It is also a citizen's right to remind people that that particular company has what they feel to be a marginal employee compensation/health plan.
Your free market thinking doesn't cover all the international outsourcing. Or do you think itโs okay to make money at the expense of the employees and the effect it may have on others outside of the corporation, like Nikeโs child labor in Asia and Mobilโs oil spills. The desire to make money shouldnโt give a corporation the right to make decisions that affect the quality of my life or yours.
BTW, 200 years ago, corporations were severely regulated. There were laws making โany political contribution by corporations a criminal offense.โ In 1816, Thomas Jefferson said, โI hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.โ Instead, we reward their billions in profits with billions in subsidies and tax breaks that citizens donโt get.
A company has the right to make bad employment policy decisions. .
Yeah, you have the right to punch yourself in the nose, too. But you donโt have the right to punch yourself and fall on my child and break her arm.
This has less to do with religious freedom than it does to do with whether or not the government can oversee every business decision you want to make in your corporation. .
To the contrary, it has everything to do with a for-profit corporation trying to hide behind โreligious freedomโ to force their personal morality upon employees, which is more akin to a corporation making every decision for employees than the government making every decision for a corporation.
If the government can FORCE you to include birth control in your business's employee policy, then a more conservative government in the future can FORCE you to remove birth control from every employee policy from every business in the future. .
Not if there is law made by the Supreme Court, which is, once again, the main point: What the Supreme Court is deciding is at the heart of the matter. They are taking it upon themselves to ascribe the right of religious beliefs to the rich as being more important than the liberties of citizens and/or employees. Why should the religious beliefs of the corporate officers take precedent over the religious beliefs of the workers?
Similarly, this is why it is a terrible idea for groups to try and place christian emblems on court house lawns; at some point in the future, they would then have to be accepting of pagan, religions placing their emblems on the lawn. .
Too late: The Christmas Tree is a pagan symbol.
All of this is irrelevant anyway, the whole point of nationalizing health care was to make it so expensive that companies could no longer afford to offer health care plans, thereby forcing every citizen onto an expensive, highly inefficient entitlement program disguised as health care. .
Good grief. Another nonsensical conspiracy theory. Iโll bet when youโre 80, and the Conservatives have done away with social security and Medicaid, youโll be happy you have that inefficient health care entitlement program.
Health care costs in my company have risen 59% in three years. That is a fact, and it is a direct result of Obamacare. The insurance company has warned us that in the fall we will need to be ready for an additional significant increase in next year's policy. That is another fact. And, no, you cannot blame that on Bush. .
Your increasing premiums might be a fact, but your reasons why are not.
Aetna insurance says, โAccording to National Health Expenditure data, the growth in premiums tracked directly with the underlying cost of medical care from 2000-2010 โ a trend that has been consistent for decades.โ
If your companyโs premiums have risen 59% in three years, it sounds like your company has exercised its right to make bad decisions. Blaming Obama for your 59% is as absurd as blaming Bush.
But, you keep on with your crusade to make 80 year olds pay for birth control benefits, if that makes you happy.
Yeah, thatโs what I do every day, crusade to make old people pay for birth control.
