This is a sad day for America
03-26-2009, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by z06bigbird' post='826934' date='Mar 26 2009, 07:00 AM
I don't know about you, but I pay a portion of the unemployment, social security, medicare, and medicaid taxes for everybody--you, me, and all my fellow Americans. When smokers have heart attacks or go to long term care facilities (including nursing homes), the services are not for free.
If those people are not eligible for these benefits, all of our health insurance premiums go up annually. Last few years, group health insurance premiums have been going up at the rate of 10% to 20%. Americans are actually getting healthier and living longer. We, however, are paying for those who do not take care of themselves.
Some insurance companies charge non-smokers, and non-overweight emploees a lower health insurance premium.
Take a look at your paycheck stub--under deductions--FICA, FUTA, Title XIX, Title XX, and the employer's deductions. In addition to us paying for these benefits for others, our employer also pays a significant portion. e. g., employer pays .001 of gross payroll for unemployment, plus other levies; employer matches what you pay for Title XIX. (This para is a generalization, and the nomenclature and percentages are ballpark descriptions and figures.)
Please tell us how you avoid paying for the health care for patients with chronic health problems. We would all like to know so that we can avoid these payments also.
We await your speedy response.
If those people are not eligible for these benefits, all of our health insurance premiums go up annually. Last few years, group health insurance premiums have been going up at the rate of 10% to 20%. Americans are actually getting healthier and living longer. We, however, are paying for those who do not take care of themselves.
Some insurance companies charge non-smokers, and non-overweight emploees a lower health insurance premium.
Take a look at your paycheck stub--under deductions--FICA, FUTA, Title XIX, Title XX, and the employer's deductions. In addition to us paying for these benefits for others, our employer also pays a significant portion. e. g., employer pays .001 of gross payroll for unemployment, plus other levies; employer matches what you pay for Title XIX. (This para is a generalization, and the nomenclature and percentages are ballpark descriptions and figures.)
Please tell us how you avoid paying for the health care for patients with chronic health problems. We would all like to know so that we can avoid these payments also.
We await your speedy response.
03-26-2009, 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by tblck543' post='826794' date='Mar 25 2009, 07:52 PM
Just when the world already thinks we are the fattest country on the planet.........this happens and we prove them all right!!! 
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Man that's to much.
03-26-2009, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by tblck543' post='826794' date='Mar 26 2009, 01:52 AM
Just when the world already thinks we are the fattest country on the planet.........this happens and we prove them all right!!!
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03-26-2009, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Ricracing' post='827419' date='Mar 26 2009, 01:54 PM
The Europeans are also getting fatter every day :thumbsdown:
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03-26-2009, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by z06bigbird' post='826934' date='Mar 25 2009, 10:00 PM
I don't know about you, but I pay a portion of the unemployment, social security, medicare, and medicaid taxes for everybody--you, me, and all my fellow Americans. When smokers have heart attacks or go to long term care facilities (including nursing homes), the services are not for free.
If those people are not eligible for these benefits, all of our health insurance premiums go up annually. Last few years, group health insurance premiums have been going up at the rate of 10% to 20%. Americans are actually getting healthier and living longer. We, however, are paying for those who do not take care of themselves.
Some insurance companies charge non-smokers, and non-overweight emploees a lower health insurance premium.
Take a look at your paycheck stub--under deductions--FICA, FUTA, Title XIX, Title XX, and the employer's deductions. In addition to us paying for these benefits for others, our employer also pays a significant portion. e. g., employer pays .001 of gross payroll for unemployment, plus other levies; employer matches what you pay for Title XIX. (This para is a generalization, and the nomenclature and percentages are ballpark descriptions and figures.)
Please tell us how you avoid paying for the health care for patients with chronic health problems. We would all like to know so that we can avoid these payments also.
We await your speedy response.
If those people are not eligible for these benefits, all of our health insurance premiums go up annually. Last few years, group health insurance premiums have been going up at the rate of 10% to 20%. Americans are actually getting healthier and living longer. We, however, are paying for those who do not take care of themselves.
Some insurance companies charge non-smokers, and non-overweight emploees a lower health insurance premium.
Take a look at your paycheck stub--under deductions--FICA, FUTA, Title XIX, Title XX, and the employer's deductions. In addition to us paying for these benefits for others, our employer also pays a significant portion. e. g., employer pays .001 of gross payroll for unemployment, plus other levies; employer matches what you pay for Title XIX. (This para is a generalization, and the nomenclature and percentages are ballpark descriptions and figures.)
Please tell us how you avoid paying for the health care for patients with chronic health problems. We would all like to know so that we can avoid these payments also.
We await your speedy response.
We pay for people's bad decisions every day either directly or indirectly.
03-26-2009, 07:42 PM
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