On 3/20/2010 11:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"Swingman" wrote

Try being self-employed for the past 40 years, then ask me if I give a
rat's ass about COBRA.

Oh, an independent's look at things. Let's start at the beginning. I do
have very good health insurance coverage through my employer. But why?
There is no real reason that any employer should, or must, provide
health care insurance to an employee.

My employer does not provide me with a home, a car, my utilities, and
has never bought me a pair of shoes. Why then, after 30 or 90 days, does
he have to provide me with medical coverage? There are many ways of
getting group rates and if there were no such groups, we'd all be in the
same pool for the same rate anyway.

Oh, let's really start "at the beginning":

Health insurance, starting barely 50 years ago, has been provided to
those employed by government and corporations as an additional form of
"compensation" for employment.

Health insurance has since been subverted from the category of
"compensation", to one of "entitlement", and is fast approaching the
status of a "right".

Tell me we haven't "lost our way" with regard to the founding principles
of this country when compensation for doing a job has insidiously become
a "right".

You preaching to the choir?

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