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SOUTHLAKE, Texas (Reuters) -- Real estate agent Lisa DeWaal serves coffee at a Starbucks outlet for four hours every morning before she goes to the office to start her "day job."
The reason has little to do with the state of the housing market and everything to do with the one big perk that 20 hours a week at the coffee counter provides: affordable health insurance for her and her three children.
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Sad life must circulate around Healthcare Insurance instead of Education for our Children!
Do we fully realize the Power the Corporations have over people like Baucus?
All his donors have to say is, "Hey look Baucus if you don't want to play our way then we will support your opponent next time! Double Whammy!
So in other wards if you get $4,672,768 from Insurance+Real Estate+Banks like he does, then you stand to effectively lose TWICE THAT! Yes you lose your funding but your opponent gets that FUNDING so you see a swing of over $9 Million in Campaign funds for advertising+reelection.
Baucus takes a DOUBLE WHAMMY by crossing his donors, so you understand how DOUBLY CORRUPTING the Campaign Funding System is!
From Just Healthcare and Insurance Baucus gets $Millions!
Opensecrets.org
Insurance $1,182,613
Health Professionals $1,031,276
Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $740,605
It is time for CAMPAIGN FUNDING REFORM to give Power back to the people of America!
Solution to PROTECT OUR Congress Members Votes from being sold to Highest Bidders:
1. Setup a Government Contribution Acceptance and Funds Distribution Agency run by CITIZENS
2. Funnel all Political Contributions through this agency - Audited at least Annually
3. Use strict formulas for allocating funds to House+Senate Members
4. "Blindly" distribute lump sums twice per year to Politicians - No KNOWN SOURCES of funds!
5. Reserve some funds for New Candidates that meet campaign funding criteria
6. Two? Term Limits for Senators
7. Four? Term Limits for House
We need this issue to come to the floor for a vote in both Houses!
The good members of Congress want reform, as they have to sell not only their VOTES but their Reputations when they have to raise money!
Who cares about the Bad ones - They need to go and the ones who vote against Campaign Reform are the BAD ONES and MUST GO! It may take a cycle but it must REMAIN PRIORITY ONE to delink Washington from the Corporatists!
I've got news for her. The vast majority of low paid jobs don't offer health care in any shape or form.
You might be surprised how many of them do offer it.
I've done some research on this topic, and the findings may be regional in nature as I live in the union and worker friendly Northwest. Grocery clerks, barristas, retail store clerks, school custodians, day care workers, etc. All getting health insurance.
Ironically for our family its been my husband, who makes over $100K a year, who has never had family health insurance as a benefit. I've had the low wage job and the benefits. Weird.
If people are boxed into low-wage jobs like this, I suppose this helps explain the fact that retail sales were down last month (Sources: http://www.marketnewsvideo.com/?id=200907Retail070909&mv=1 & http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jEUOBuLQexhEw6Sbb1sU7mSLR6iAD99B0MO01 ).
This is not news.
Yes. My reaction to this article was, "Well, duh!"
This is ridiculous, most low paying jobs do not come with insurance and frankly if they do, you can't afford it. This headline is totally misleading.
The point of the article is that people are taking low paying SECOND jobs, specifically with companies that offer health insurance (like Starbucks). The combination of two jobs allows people to pay for the health insurance. The article isn't misleading at all.
Agree. For people who want to be self-employed, or do commission-only type work, health insurance can be completely unaffordable. Contrary to what people are saying on this thread, many low to moderate paying jobs do offer health insurance. Public school systems, for example. I once had a $14/hour part time job as a teacher's assistant. But the district provided excellent medical insurance and dental insurance for myself and kids. That benefit was worth about $1,100 a month, and my paycheck was around $400 a month.
I did this job only because my husband's employer didn't provide family insurance.
Now we just suck it up and pay the premiums out of pocket ourselves, but with kids going to college soon I'll be looking for another "benefits" job.
It's a very weird way to manage our economy, on all levels.
The lack of affordable health care is a major contributor to the current economic difficulties that many people face.
We are lucky as we have employer sponsored health care at a cost to us of approximately $10.000.00 a year. This is money that we can use to reinvest into the economy. In other words we can pay off debt and buy stuff. My issue is not that I mind paying for insurance, but the cost has increased so much, it has become a burden to so many....just sayin'
The real reason is because the higher paying manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas. And we payed the big corps to do it too. How many times do we have to bend over and take it before we get really mad? I have had ENOUGH!!!
Part Two is why the US Chamber of Commerce likes things the way they are. Insurance Portability is death to crappy, low paying jobs!
Oh yeah! It can't be that they didn't study, work hard, and prepare for higher-paying jobs. Blame it on health care!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124709502661214861.html
It is time, America, to stop the fan club sycophantic suckup hero worship and start noticing that the would-be Emperor Obama has no clothes and feet of clay.
The WSJ does not speak for the middle class, they speak in the interests of the upper upper middle class and the ueber class. it is time for people like you to study your history. You would learn that there would not be a middle class, (upper, middle and lower) without the struggle of unions and the ideas of liberals. We would still have child labor, sweat shops, no vacation or sick leave at all, no OSHA, in short nothing. Your employer does not think you should have time off when you could work for him for low wages.
We had 8years of emperor Bush and we live the consequences and you can't see it. You are a sycophant par excellence. I reserve my judgment of Obama until there is something to judge, and I will judge. You just take everything the neo conservatives dish up to you on face value, never ask any questions. Look closer at the totally loony Republicans, people who have no shame to claim hunger will motivate children, the earth is 6000 years old, creation, and many more stupid remarks.
It's time for people like you (liberals) to not employ ad hominems in an attempt to portray every conservative as an uneducated selfish brute. It's pretty astonishing that my peers and I get called elitist Republicans for attending a pretty prestigious university (even though our college voted 80-20 Obama) in one breath, while in the other we're forced to argue against Obama-sycophants who can't string together a cogent thought that doesn't include the rambling misgivings of some council-level Republican in a backwards town in Arkansas.
In terms of the contributions of unions, no one disagrees that they were (historically) incredibly influential in securing rights and prosperity for average Americans, but that time has long since passed. 81% of Americans don't want to be in a union today, and only 7.2% of Americans belong to a union. Yet somehow the SIEU commands enormous influence, a war chest of over $500 million (prior to the 2008 elections), and has to pay less taxes than me, working a minimum-wage job at Abercrombie and Fitch. EFCA and similar unionized measures will do nothing but incentivize businesses to take what few manufacturing jobs are left and move them; they simply can't afford to compete with labour from Guinea or India with all of these mandates being shoved down their throats. Unions have become counter-productive and are a worn-out tool of the 20th century.
Wait, your rebuttal is an opinion piece by Karl Rove? Give me a break.
Lack of "studying hard, working hard, and preparing for higher-paying jobs" is not the issue. Why should anyone have to have two jobs to afford to go to the doctor? Should individuals who choose rewarding jobs -- e.g. sole proprietors with no employees -- that may have fewer hours and lower income (and subsequently have no extra "perks") be consider so "lesser" in worth that they are undeserving of affordable health care? How absurd.
Lack of health care has very little to do with quality of jobs or education anymore. The backbone of our economy is and always has been small businesses. Small businesses simply can't afford to offer health insurance anymore, even to their best and brightest employees.
Let's see. I have a Bachelors Degree in an Engineering field. I have a Masters in Business Administration. I have continued education in computer programming and a large amount of college coursework in the social and behavior sciences.
And I don't have a job.
Don't tell me it's because I'm lazy or unmotivated or any other such drivel.
And right now I, like many, live in a world where our best option may be to go belly up and then accept living on the street, with a destroyed credit history and no health care available to us.
Conservatives need to go back and try to rediscover the path to reality, because they've lost sight of it and no longer would know it if they ran into it.
Having to do a second job is not exactly what you would call the "american dream" -thank you to the vetrans for giving us the freedom to achieve the american dream, too bad rightwing conservatives are trying to do everything in their power to make the american dream a thing of the past.
Then don't take the second job and then cry about the lack of benefits you have.
What ever happened to getting up each day and doing what you need to do to take care of your family, and not whining about it the whole time?
Next you'll complain that parents don't spend enough time with their kids anymore. Nice. Health insurance should not be a benefit. It's simply common sense. Healthy people are able to work harder and are less of a drain on the system. Why is that so hard to figure out?
Then you don't have any problem with people turning to a life of crime in order to support their families and put bread on the table and a roof over their heads and getting their children the nominal healthcare they need.
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