I agree completely Barbara. However, the taxpayer isn't footing the benefit bill for employees in the private sector; it's the business owners. In general, when business is booming the private sector benefit packages are also booming as a competitive enhancement to attract employees-- all the bells and whistles are offered. However, when business is depressed the benefits are often reduced as a cost cutting measure, and jobs may even disappear; sometimes even the business disappears. Overall, most private sector employees don't have excessively attractive health care benefit packages to begin with-- simply because most employees work for smaller businesses that can't afford fancy benefit packages- in good times or bad.
And Barb, I'd venture a guess that the GE employee health care package today isn't equivalent to what they enjoyed 10-15 years ago. Just a guess. Michael Hohmann Linden Hills > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Barbara Lickness > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mpls Forum > Subject: Re: [Mpls] Peter Bell on Almanac > > > I work for NRP and our agency buys our benefits > package from the City of Mpls. I also worked for G.E. > for 15 years in years prior. My benefits at G.E. far > exceeded the benefits I get at the city. snip > ...to state that public > employees somehow make out better in the benefit > department than those in the private sector is not > necessarily true. I think the size of the company has > a lot to do with it. If you work for a major > corporation you generally recieve better benefit > packages that if you work for a small company. > > Barb Lickness > Whittier > NRP Staff snip REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
