[Rhodes22-list] Health Care (Political)

[Herb Parsons]

Andrew,

You do know that both business plans, yours and Wal-Marts, can be good. 
The company I work for has, as part of their mission statement, the 
"spiritual growth" of their employees. I personally feel that's 
important. That's one of the reasons I've worked with the owner of the 
company (in various capacities) for over 18 years, and why I'm now about 
to become one of the partners in his business. We successful, though not 
hugely so, (we do about 8 million in business a year).

Does that mean that I think companies that DON'T have that as part of 
their mission statement are wrong or evil or just plain bad?

Nope, they just have a different focus. I can relate, understand, and 
even live with it.

And I would never dare try to tell them they have to do it the way we do.

Andrew Collins wrote:
> Guys
>
> Health care is not entirely economic. Having health care is good, right? I
> think we can agree on that.
>
> As an Enlightened Capitalist, socially liberal, econically
> prudent/conservative, admitted fallow traveller and small business owner, I
> pay for 85% of the healthcare cost for all of my employees. In NYC no less,
> which is more than double the cost in adjacent regions like New England and
> the mid-Atlantic (I know, I checked).
>
> Why do I break ranks with Wal-mart?  Let me count the ways:
> 1. It is the right thing to do.
> 2. I can't sleep at night if I don't do it.
> 3. It makes my employees able to have families and live like the civilized
> people they are. They need not fear becoming ill.
> 4. It makes them loyal, and makes them less likely to quit, so I profit by
> retaining the institutional knowledge they have in-house.
> 5. It makes my firm more attractive than other consulting firms when a
> candidate must choose between firms. Benefits are important.
> 6. All of the above works, we have very little turn over, the quality of our
> product is recognized by our stable client roster.
>
> One man's plan
>
> Andrew
> EC
> sv Carmen
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Rob,
>>
>> Did you take the time to poke around the website of the movie?
>> Liberal claptrap. I don't have the time or energy to debunk all the
>> silliness printed there but I will take on WalMart.  First, I love
>> WalMart, probably because I'm a heathen redneck and like the fact that
>> I can buy bullets in the gun department while my wife is shopping for
>> tomatoes, but whatever.  WalMart could offer its employees health
>> care, hell, they COULD offer them free housing.  You'd pay more for
>> goods at WalMart but then you don't shop there anyway, right?  Does
>> the farmer's market where you buy your arugula offer health care?
>> WalMart is a business and one that is very well run (and besides, if
>> my 401K doesn't recover I may want to work there someday).
>>
>> Do they have an economics department on your campus?  Maybe you should
>> broaden your education some.
>>
>> Brad
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Lowe, Rob <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
>>     
>>> Too bad it's too true to be funny. - rob
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> Ed,
>>>
>>> That's Funny!
>>>
>>> Brad
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> See:  http://imvotingrepublican.com/
>>>>
>>>> And I quote, 'stir the pot'.
>>>>
>>>> Ed K
>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
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