gabriel wrote in
rvers.com:

5. We want our companies to give us free health, life, dental and
vision insurance, higher pensions, retirement health care, long term
disability…… It all goes into the bottom line so our products are
more expensive.

This is not a new concept... I would buy it if everyione had started
demanding health care in recent years. What is truly happening is
health care cost is going up, with benefits going down. How do you
explain that?


For an eye opening experience sit down with a doctor and ask them. You
What they say? My wife's doctor has quit. It seems that for every 15
minute apointement she had to fill out 2 hours worth of paperwork. So
she had to hire enough staff to handle it. Then congress created HIPA.
The overhead just doubled. So when the goverment requires by law that
you go out and double your staff what do you think happens? Your cost
goes up so your price has to too.

I have several friends that are doctors. One, an othopedic surgeon, has
had his after tax income go down continually for the past 10 years. He
showed me his tax forms. 10 years ago his AGI was about $350K. Last
year it was $250K. He works twice as many hours as he used to but has
less after taxes.

The money isn't going to the health care people. It is being swallowed
by overhead and taxes.

Lets not even talk about the $100K per year in malpractice insurance.

Oh, be sure and vote for Edwards. A trial lawer, he will fix it for us!