How are we going to manage this?
And by "we", I mean Americans and by this, I mean social services.
This is on my mind because our company health insurance is up for renewal. In order to keep our health insurance semi-affordable, my company had to go with a plan that has a much greater deductible. It doesn't greatly affect me because I'm fairly healthy and our household has a good income stream.
But some of the people I work with, it really affects them. They're not happy, to put it mildly. And why should they be? I think my jaw was ready to drop open when I realized one man I work with has to have his kids on Mass Health, because they can't afford the family co-pay. He works his butt off and the company can't pay him a wage that makes the family plan feasible or pick it up themselves? Unbelievable.
I know anyone outside the United States is generally appalled by a lack of a social safety net. It's kind of as if we said with a straight face, Why yes, we leave our babies out in the woods at night where the wild beasts can get them. But there's lot of people running around shooing away the wild beasts and not very many babies get eaten. It's okay! Really it is!
It's not you, it is kind of like that.
This is on my mind because our company health insurance is up for renewal. In order to keep our health insurance semi-affordable, my company had to go with a plan that has a much greater deductible. It doesn't greatly affect me because I'm fairly healthy and our household has a good income stream.
But some of the people I work with, it really affects them. They're not happy, to put it mildly. And why should they be? I think my jaw was ready to drop open when I realized one man I work with has to have his kids on Mass Health, because they can't afford the family co-pay. He works his butt off and the company can't pay him a wage that makes the family plan feasible or pick it up themselves? Unbelievable.
I know anyone outside the United States is generally appalled by a lack of a social safety net. It's kind of as if we said with a straight face, Why yes, we leave our babies out in the woods at night where the wild beasts can get them. But there's lot of people running around shooing away the wild beasts and not very many babies get eaten. It's okay! Really it is!
It's not you, it is kind of like that.