All true.
--Lou K2LKK

At 01:03 PM 6/13/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>It's not just the wages, it's the cost of health care.  America is the only
>industrialized where health care is a shared cost between the employer and
>employee.  That means, that our employers are competing with a huge chain
>around their necks that their foreign competitors don't have to carry.
>Minimum wage says nothing about Health care costs.  If you get $25,000 a
>year and have to pay $200 a pay check off the top, just for health care; you
>are still below poverty.  That often includes $1,500 per person deductibles
>and co-pays for Dr. visits and prescriptions.  That is unless the specific
>drug that works for you is not on your companies drug formulary.  Then you
>pay full price for it.
>Besides that, people can't afford the risk of changing jobs because they may
>have to go with out that crappie insurance, and a week in the hospital
>costing over $12,000 would bankrupt them.
>
>
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