we need am army of Luigi
Several thoughts.
- Imagine you have cancer and you're working through it on your spouse's Disney healthcare, but you also need to work full-time to make ends meet. You might be forced to quit your job or only do part-time hours so that you can continue on the better health insurance. Forcing people into this sort of financial dilemma is... well, I think the most accurate term is "evil."
- As they said in the article, this affects lower income employees more. If you're a high income employee at Disney, maybe you don't need your spouse to work. So, this will disproportionately remove lower income people from their insurance, while higher income people receive twice the healthcare benefits. This makes very little sense.
- This is more evidence that the very concept of tying workplace to healthcare is madness. In the end, universal healthcare is just the optimal solution.
Why don't we already have universal, single-payer healthcare? Let's not forget that it's the corporations and ultra-wealthy people who have the most sway in our government. Look, here's Disney bitching and moaning about how awful and expensive it is to offer adequate healthcare for their employees. So obviously, you'd think they should just support universal healthcare and be done with all of this healthcare expense.
But the truth is that they don't want to. They want to tie healthcare to the company because smaller companies often have worse healthcare packages because they have less negotiating power, and this is a way of enslaving people. Tying them to one company so that they can never leave. But also, make it as cheap as possible in the meantime. Reduce benefits just enough so that they constantly suffer but can't afford to leave. They want to have it both ways. Employees not getting enough benefits as well as getting enough benefits that they can't afford to leave.
This is entirely inhumane.
Per depressing non fiction novel "dying of whiteness", many poor white people don't want universal programs like health care because they don't want those people to have access. They would rather suffer and die themselves.
Many people, I'd guess like a third, are just assholes.
This is shitty, but also in any functional country, healthcare is not tied to employment
We’re the first ones to starve, we’re the first ones to die
The first ones in line for that pie-in-the-sky
And we’re always the last when the cream is shared out
For the worker is working when the fat cat’s about
I can hear DKM performing this in my head as I read it.
If you work for them and are against this in anyway, you support them by continuing to work for them. Things won't get better until people grow up and realize the corporations are not on their side.
So now that their spouse has lost healthcare they should quit and lose their healthcare and their income too. That will show the multi-billion dollar company!!!
Seriously? Nobody is supporting this just by continuing to work for them. Different departments of Disney are members of different unions for starters.
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