Has anyone stopped to think about the reason WHY the government is pushing for socialized health care in our nation of 1%ers? Before taking judgment that I'm defending the Act, please read this entire post!
Let's dive in head first:
Simply put; I don't personally know of anyone that can afford the ridiculous prices of our health care system. As most people know by now, the majority of our nation lives pay check to pay check. With that in mind, how can anyone afford to fund the latest super high-tech hospitals, the Patrick Dempsey miracle doctors, their student loans, AND the deep pockets of the insurance companies? A good friend of mine's mother in law had to move to central America so she could actually afford to get treatments which cost $2,000 PER DAY here in the states. Same quality of treatment as in the US, yet only a fraction of the cost.
Now the first rational argument that comes to mind might be that these people simply need to spend their money wiser. While this may be true for some, the facts of wage history combined with steady inflation disproves the argument completely.
One recent story that highlights this problem came out not too long ago. McDonald's recently announced the creation of their "Mc Help-Line" which is supposed to help their employees (over 50% of them in fact) obtain government assistance in order to live. All in the name of good cheap food which as most will agree, isn't exactly cheap or healthy. Now take a minute and think about the process. The tax payers are literally now helping fund the lives of over half of McDonald's Employees! Now with the precedent set, It's only a matter of time before other imperialist companies follow suit.
Now let's go even deeper...
Over the past 40 years, the average wage for almost every profession has been stagnant in relationship to inflation. To counter this, some companies have implemented an inflation based raise across the board to all of their employees. However these same companies will typically just fire the employee once they've become too expensive and replace them with someone younger and cheaper. No news there right? So in a nut shell, the exec's keep their insane paychecks and bonus' while taking advantage of their employees.
The Independent research organization: State of Working America, has been doing research since the 70's, and has highlighted this in their book:
As noted above, tax policy has very little (if anything) to counter this insane corporate greed. After all, the people who write their own paychecks have ways to get around that.
If after all this you still don't agree with me, do some research of your own. Go back in time and look at the historical average of your own wage (www.bls.gov). Then properly adjust the wage for market inflation of each year until today. This is exactly what companies do to adjust the pricing of their products, so why shouldn't you? Once you have your surprising findings, go into your bosses office and demand this adjusted wage. Riiiight.
Wake up people. It's only a matter of time.
