On 20/10/2010, at 8:48 AM, John Williams wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Pat Mathews <mathew...@msn.com> wrote: > Okay. Have it your way. We/they didn't save enough and consume health care > with reckless abandon. May you never be in the workplace where the clerk, > knowing that one must never, ever, consume health care one cannot afford, > comes to work with the flu. > > That is a poor example of reducing health care costs. Flu shots cost almost > nothing compared to expensive diagnostics (MRI, CT scans, etc.) or major > surgeries. Also, paying for health care for the working is not a big problem, > but paying for decades of premium health care for the retired is a big > problem.
And *WHOOSH* did you miss Pat's point. Point being, people who come to work ill 'cause they can't afford to take a day off 'cause they don't get sick leave and have to pay for the quack, so they turn up to work with the sniffles. So they give everyone else what they have. Those people can't afford a day off either. And production goes down. It's called "presenteeism", and it costs companies. Maybe in the States they'll twig to this and providing a quota of sick leave and some reasonable health care insurance (in lieu of an actual health care system...) is beneficial in the long run. Charlie. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
