Help me understand this?

[Spaced Cowboy]

At work:

Health care cost, aka medical insurance, is dependent on the amount of salary that you earn.

For instance the people earning $25k per year pay $25 dollars per paycheck and the people making $100k+ per year pay almost $60 per paycheck.

How is this fair?

I busted my azz going to school to get a good job and then I have to subsidize the health care costs of the slackers.

That ain't right.

[JohnT]

Huh? Do you even know what you're talking about, or are you just pulling incorrect inferences out of you azzes?

I vote AZZ.

[duke o' york]

Just another kind of tax I'm afraid. If you're going to be earning big bucks, then expect to pay more than those who aren't.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Originally posted by JohnT
Huh? Do you even know what you're talking about, or are you just pulling incorrect inferences out of you azzes?

I vote AZZ.

No I just got the cost breakdown today.

There are levels of cost based on wages for health insurance.

Becuase I make more money that the others does that mean I am more of a risk and should pay more....like I was a smoker or something.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Spaced Cowboy


No I just got the cost breakdown today.

There are levels of cost based on wages for health insurance.

Becuase I make more money that the others does that mean I am more of a risk and should pay more....like I was a smoker or something.

This is pretty standard. The company is subsidizing your health insurance, and in the interests of keeping healthcare costs down for those most in need (the poor $15k a year people ... ) they subsidize theirs more and yours less, because you don't need the subsidy as much. They're not charging you more, per se, just subsidizing it less ... otherwise they'd subsidize everyone less, which would make it impossible to afford healthcare for poor people...

[Spaced Cowboy]

But the breakdown stops at 100k, the freakin' CEO pays the same as I, how is that fair?

[Urban Ranger]

Nobody says corporations are fair.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Fair is a poor choice of words.

Why does this practice reak of socialism?

Why should the slackers get a subsidy and I get the shaft?

[Ramo]

So let me get this straight:
1. People who make $25k a year are "slackers."
2. A corporation offering somewhat affordable health care for the lower income employees (to help offset their relatively meagre wages) is an example of "socialism."

[MrFun]

Apparently all middle class people are slackers while all upper class people are hard-working??

[Spaced Cowboy]

I'm not saying that all people making 25K are slackers, but I do not understand how they were unable to make changes in their lifes to move up a notch.

Come on, you know the types I'm referring to.

And yes, there are plenty of 100ker that are slackers as well.

25k people are not middle class.
nor are 100k people upper class.

My parents were poor. When I was in high school, I owned 3 pairs of pants....only 3. One was for work.

I did not go directly to college and worked crap jobs for a while not even making 25k.

I worked and eventaully went to school, paid for it all myself. BS and MS degrees in EE working craptacular jobs.

So I consider myself hardworking, maybe unrightly so. But I remember the slackers in high school, taking just enough classes to grad, then getting a mcjob, and then doing nothing.

These are my slackers.

The made fun of my estudious ways in high school, and now I'm paying for their healthcare.

My property taxes send their kids to school.

Maybe I should just give up and give them my paycheck directly.

OTOH, I do not have a problem with help those that are putting in the effort, just seems like those folks are in the minority.

[MrFun]

You couldn't put yourself up on a higher pedestal with that post, Spaced?

[Spaced Cowboy]

Sorry, I'm on the upstairs computer.

[MrFun]

HA!


Seriously though -- what kind of material for your pedestal would you prefer for a statue of yourself? Marble? Gold? Silver? Horsesh*t?

[Spaced Cowboy]

Silence!

What about the issue?