Quote Originally Posted by dragonrider
Why aren't corporate interests the ones pushing hardest for nationalized healthcare?
According to what US News and World Report said and something my wife's former CEO also told me, many of them are pushing for it, especially within the last three years as insuring their workforces has gotten painfully expensive. Bird worked for a Fortune 100 company that insured something insane like 160,000 employees around the world, at least in countries where there wasn't govt-subsidized coverage. About 90,000K of its employees were in America. So it cost multi-millions to provide health coverage for that employee population. They were rich enough to cover that employee population, but the pain from doing so was bad. Per US News, big businesses for whom health care expenses have begun to eat into annual revenue and damage shareholder/dividend value were the first to come around on nationally supplemented coverage. Those sized companies are still going to have to help cover their populations, though, at great expense, and they'll pick up lots more of the tab for it from a nationalized plan, too, in taxes or corporate premiums. Nationalized care will help, though.

Pretty sure we haven't heard more about it for two reasons.
A, it hasn't been fashionable to clamor for nationalized health care from a political perspective, especially by good, right-aligned (business) loyalists. Then B, there are a lot more small businesses in the country that simply don't offer insurance at all or only offer the bare minimum or coverage that employees can buy on their own. So those businesses haven't felt that expense so bad and haven't cared one way or the other. Their employees feel the pain when they either try to get health care on their own or face a medical crisis, though.

For me, insuring my people is one of my top three expenses now. There are groups we can join to help put us into bigger insurance pools. The Texas Med Assoc offers a couple. Man, it hurts, though. Lots of physicians have stopped covering their offices entirely, which is unconscionable since they get coverage themselves and professional courtesy freebie care, at least from other doctors, and always will. It's not physician care that eats anyone alive and sends them to bankruptcy court, though. It's hospital and facility bills (like rehab facility). Some cancer bills, too, can be just as terminal as the disease itself.

If more big businesses would start squawking and lobbying for nationalized plans (they do that on the sly, generally, when they do it), Congress and the Senate would hear that loud and clear.
Dave Byrd Reviewed by Dave Byrd on . Question about Nationalized Universal Healthcare There was recently a very lively debate about the different healthcare plans of the two candidates in the Obama and McCain "change" poll threads. And after thinking so much about healthcare policy, I had a question I would like to pose to the canncom community: Why aren't corporate interests the ones pushing hardest for nationalized healthcare? In the US, about 60% of Americans get healthcare insurance through their employers, with the company picking up a large part of the cost. A Rating: 5