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But wages in many industries aren't keeping pace with cost of living in America, making larger insurance pools set up through employers the only economical private means of delivering affordable health insurance. Even with employer insurance coverage, about 40 million Americans remain uninsured, and millions more are underinsured.
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This is a complex problem you are attempting to over-simplify, which makes it harder to understand, and easier to justify bad legislation.
Wages aren't keeping pace because the type of work is changing drasticly as manufacturing moves offshore, and service industry becomes the norm. This is a problem caused by many things, but mainly the devaluing of the dollar, the creation of laws that allow manufacturers in third world countries that abuse their workers to enter our trade market with their goods, illegal aliens flooding the labor workforce and lowering wages on low-skilled jobs, and overall, over-taxation while simulataneously borrowing from foreign nations to spend much more than we are making.
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Therefore, while employers currently must bear some of the insurance burden in our medical system,
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There is no reason for corporations to offer healthcare coverage anymore.
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they have a vested interest in employing the healthiest people. Alcoholics, for example, can and do lose their jobs. Obese and overweight people have statistically higher chances of getting diabetes and other expensive health problems, which affect everyone's health insurance premiums.
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Exactly, which is why corporations are now using this as an EXCUSE to create new hiring descrimination policies, attempting to FORCE society to conform to "their prescribed vision" of what America should be. This is yet another blatant step towards authoritarian control.
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Of course, firing the overweight and obese doesn't solve the underlying problem. That's why HMOs and employer insurance schemes, while better than nothing, are failing. At some point our nation will extend some version of Medicare to the entire population, and the current national polls (including a majority of US physicians) reflect that trend.
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Which is exactly what the corporations and big government want.... Total control over you, your finances, your medical access and your life.
Good sheeple. (pet pet pet pet)