"Boater" wrote in message
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:

I'll give you an example. My back operation cost $14,356 in total
which was cheap considering that the main surgeon and assistant were
freebies. That includes room, operating room, drugs, anesthesia,
yada, yada, yada.

My copay for that was $2,300. A UAW retiree, the guy who put four
screws in the afore mentioned dashboard for his career, for that same
operation, which would have included surgeon and assistant fees
totaling about $21,000, would have been $4.

A pre-packaged Chapter1 bankruptcy would allow for restructuring the
health care provisions to something a little more reasonable.


"Restructurings" usually are much harder on the working stiffs than the
management pukes. And why should a retiree on a fixed income have to fork
over $2300 for necessary surgery?



It's called a deductable Harry, something anyone should be prepared for and
also reduces health care premiums somewhat. I'll bet the overall savings
in premium payments by having a reasonable deductable more than covers the
$2,300 over the longer term. In major, long term illnesses, the deductable
is usually capped on a yearly basis, last time I checked.



I agree that the burden of paying for necessary health care should be
lifted from US corporations, and handled the way it is in other modern
countries.

I'm also a bit wearing of hearing about Joe the Auto Assembly Line Worker,
whose career consisted of putting four screws in a dashboard.
If that is all Joe does, and it is unlikely, then that is the job
management wants done. It isn't his fault. I haven't been in an auto plant
in many years, but when I was last in one, I didn't see any jobs like
that, and all the jobs I saw were certainly more valuable than being, oh,
a stock broker or plumbing supply dealer or software pussy.

Like leaning on a post, watching robotic arms assemble a car and the
equivalent of 85 bucks an hour?
He's there because his union has a contract saying he is entitled to be
there.

Eisboch