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In response to "To be honest, the whole concept of an employer providing health benefits to its employees very strange." by Roger More

It's all we know here. If you're employer doesn't offer benefits (they are not free, btw, but subsidized), then you don't get any. -- nm

Posted by ty97 Jul 16 '09, 07:37

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I think that's why healthcare is so difficult to reform (anywhere). It's seen as too important to experiment with, and people like the familiar. -- nm - Roger More Jul 16, 07:51 1
- or, here at least, our entire health care system seems to be to get someone else to pay for it. - znufrii Jul 16, 07:53
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- my family plan is damn near a grand a month through work. -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:41 5
  - This is why I scoff when people bitch about Canadian income taxes. - Reagen Jul 16, 07:44 4
    - Exactly. -- nm - Don Homer Jul 16, 07:48
    - granted, I have a very good insurance plan now..... - groiny Jul 16, 07:46 2
      - Is the hoopital where Cindy Lou was born? -- nm - Diva Jul 16, 07:53 1
        
        hoopty. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 16, 07:54
- You have to be in a certain poverty level for MA to insure you. And you earn too much money you lose it. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:40 4
  - and a living wage is probably considered too much money. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:47
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    - In MA if you can afford it but don't have it they put a fine against your income taxes. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:46 1
      - if the state thinks you can afford it rather. -- nm - lileve Jul 16, 07:52

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