Comments on: Our Government in Action http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/12/our_government_.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: JohnDewey http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/12/our_government_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3045 JohnDewey Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:41:24 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/12/our_government_.html#comment-3045 <p>"or the health care costs that major employers like walmart turn back on the public?"</p> <p>How is Walmart turning back health care costs on the public? Walmart does what tens of thousands of employers, large and small, are legally doing. Some offer health insurance as an option, others do not offer it at all. The problem is not Walmart. The problem is that the public picks up the cost of health care in the first place. If public health care were not available, uninsured Walmart workers might decide to take up Walmart on the health plan it offers. Or they might decide to take a chance on their continued health. Or they might find another employer.<br /> </p> “or the health care costs that major employers like walmart turn back on the public?”

How is Walmart turning back health care costs on the public? Walmart does what tens of thousands of employers, large and small, are legally doing. Some offer health insurance as an option, others do not offer it at all. The problem is not Walmart. The problem is that the public picks up the cost of health care in the first place. If public health care were not available, uninsured Walmart workers might decide to take up Walmart on the health plan it offers. Or they might decide to take a chance on their continued health. Or they might find another employer.

]]> By: grumpY! http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/12/our_government_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3044 grumpY! Tue, 27 Dec 2005 16:57:30 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/12/our_government_.html#comment-3044 <p>aren't we a few decades late to ask if government can effectively cooperate/coopt/sponsor free enterprise? you know, like our free market approach to regulating the money supply (whoops, government monopoly). or maybe our free system for competing in export markets? (whoops, government routinely fixes deals for boeing). or maybe our free and fair labor markets? (whoops, government has left the gate open on the mexican border for some time, providing free no-rights labor)</p> <p>should i mention that the free market continues to project it costs on to taxpayers by ditching on underfunded pensions? or the health care costs that major employers like walmart turn back on the public?</p> <p>one could go on and on. does anyone really believe the US is a true market economy? i put those people into the same group as the "terrorists hate us because we are free" camp. </p> <p>what we have is the system that the business community has salivated over for decades - privatized profits, socialized costs.<br /> </p> aren’t we a few decades late to ask if government can effectively cooperate/coopt/sponsor free enterprise? you know, like our free market approach to regulating the money supply (whoops, government monopoly). or maybe our free system for competing in export markets? (whoops, government routinely fixes deals for boeing). or maybe our free and fair labor markets? (whoops, government has left the gate open on the mexican border for some time, providing free no-rights labor)

should i mention that the free market continues to project it costs on to taxpayers by ditching on underfunded pensions? or the health care costs that major employers like walmart turn back on the public?

one could go on and on. does anyone really believe the US is a true market economy? i put those people into the same group as the “terrorists hate us because we are free” camp.

what we have is the system that the business community has salivated over for decades – privatized profits, socialized costs.

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