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Healthcare Funding for Business OK; to You, Not so Much

24 February 2006 - gk - reactions

So, the US Government is paying large businesses billions not to end their retiree health plans, but single-payer health care is the communist devil:

America's largest companies expect the federal government to pay them about $4 billion over the next four years to help keep their retiree health plans alive at a time when such benefits are increasingly on the chopping block, according to a new study by Credit Suisse First Boston.

The money is due to start flowing to employers this month as part of Medicare's new prescription drug benefit. When Congress authorized the Medicare drug benefit, it also agreed to start subsidizing the drug component of employers' retiree health plans, to keep them from shifting their retirees into the government program.

Just remember: the Bush administration has no problem putting business on the dole, but your grandma and you and your kids netter fucking get a job. And the President thinks you already have too much health care anyway, so don't worry about preventative care.

Losers.