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A Modest Health Care Proposal
Is a single payer national health care system inevitable? John Cole thinks so:
I think the fight over some form of nationalized health care is over, and that we will one day have a European-style system in place. The only question is when big business will successfully pressure the government to take over and how much of their current health care funding responsibilities they can manage to lay at the feet of government.
A couple of thoughts. First, it is not at all clear that business will really come out ahead if they push all health care costs onto the government. Government will expect businesses to contribute pay taxes in an amount similar to what they are already paying for employee health care. And, you can expect this amount to continue to rise.
Second, and this leads to the modest proposal, businesses do not really have any health care funding responsibilities today. Many, especially large, businesses do include the cost of some or all of a health insurance maintenance plan in their compensation packages. But what they include they can take out. It is simply a matter of providing a competitive compensation package that allows them to hire the quality of employees they need to be successful.
A better way to get out of the health care funding bind than inviting the government deeper into their revenue streams would be for businesses to eliminate health maintenance plans from their compensation packages. This will be easier in non-union businesses but should still be achievable for all that see these costs as a problem.
How does a business make this step. Take the total cost per employee that is going toward a health maintenance plan today and make that part of the employees cash compensation. The new total becomes the forward going salary. The employee then may purchase what ever type of maintenance or insurance plan they choose.
Friday Ark #67
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Cat folks: remember to submit your links to the Carnival of the Cats which goes up every Sunday and the 93rd edition will be hosted this week by Elms in the Yard. There are more weekly cats at eatstuff’s Weekend Cat Blogging which has many participants who may not be familiar to Ark or Carnival participants.
- Extra, Extra: Laurence has started a The Catbloggers Frappr Map. Go shout out!
Bird folks: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks. T13th edition edition is up and hosted by Wood Song.
New for the spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles. The third edition is up at Urban Dragon Hunters. The 4th edition is scheduled for December 31 and will be hosted by bootstrap analysis. Mail submissions to nannothemis AT gmail.com
Arkive editions of the Friday Ark.
Cats
- enrevanche: Mister Gato’s New Favorite Spot
- No Deep Thoughts: Reunited with Grumpy Santa
- Sisu: Christmas – Before, During and After: Tiny, Tiny, Baby & Tiny, and Baby
- Allan Thinks: (Macy) Grey
- . . .You Are A Tree: Joxer under the tree
- Balloon Juice: Commenter Pet Blogging: Cato, Jezzy, Little Kitty and Meadow
- Melange: A Note to My Love, Sophie and Shy Nicky
- The Conservative Cat: Catblogging: The Hunter Sleeps
- Real Art: Friday Cat Blogging: Frankie, Paz, Phil and Sammy
- Why Now?: Friday Cat Blogging: Ringo’s Bored
- Music and Cats: Feline Friday: Sergei’s flannel cave
- Middle Fork: Tinker and Sabaki on the Lookout
- Running Scared: Tom Takes Over the World
- IMAO: Friday Catblogging: Frisky the King of Fluffiness
- Caturday: I am really very shy: Silas
- Texas Oasis: Friday Shaved Cat: Jax
- sleeping mommy: The dogs and The Cats of the house
- Cascade Exposures: The Great Tissue War of 2005
- Blog d’Elisson: Sweet Sisters and a Dark Visitor
- A Shareware Life: Friday Catblogging: Truce
- Basic Juice: Lyle the Beefeater Hunter
- Mind of Mog: Bush Restraint: Izzy
- Pencil Roving: Gato opts for socks
- Catymology: Feline Folklore: Winter Dreams
- bloggo chicago: Friday Cat Blogging #15: What Doesn’t Belong?
- This Blog is Full of Crap: Piper the Paranoid
- 7610: Bye Bye 2005: Happy New Year from Blur, Pip and me!
- TechnoChitlins: Racket’s Revenge
- Where the Dolphins Play: Feline Fridays: Gryphon
- Bark Bark Woof Woof: Friday Cat Blogging: Snowball
- Ballard Avenue: Friday Cat: Frida
- i-pets.com blog: Friday Cat Blog: Holiday Visitors
- Lisa Violet’s Diary: Christmas Eve at my house
- Watermark: Critter Resolutions
- Fiat Lux: Friday FatCat Blogging: Gimi
- Dohiyi Mir: Friday Critterblogging: Cairo, Sam and Chickadee
- composite drawlings: Kali the Food Critic
- The Culture Ghost: End Of Year Cat Blogging
- Mensa Barbie: Butterscotch Rings in 06
- feministe: The Boyfriend Tortures The Kitties
- Meditation Matters: Friday Cat Blogging! Ethel
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Friday Cat Blogging: Snowball
- Just Between Strangers: Thursday Kittens – Claws are for climbing Pasha
- It’s Morning Somewhere: Friday cat blogging: Mango
- Sisu: You’re Only as Old As You Feel
- No Capital: I Miss My Cats!
- No Fancy Name: Deuce and the cheeky squirrel
- Pen Elayne: Friday Cat Blogging: Where’s Amy?
- Ego: Morris And Chile Peppers
- bloggg: Friday CAts Bloggging: Feakinsink?
- Fantasy Life: Friday Cat Blogging
- The Republic of Heaven: Friday cat blogging: Charlotte
- Bloggin’ Outloud: My Cats’ New Year’s Resolutions
- Gigolokitty!: The poor boy is having a difficult time handling his Mistress on a diet!
- eatstuff: WCB 30 Happy New Years!
- s’kat and the food: …and the debauchery continues; boarded 12/31
- Prophet or Madman: Friday
Pet Blogging – A Day Late: Milo and Otis boarded 12/31 - Farmgirl Fare: Weekend Cat Blogging #30: How to Stay Warm… boarded 1/1
- Elms in the Yard: Carnival of the Cats #93
- Dope and the Slope: Year End Invertebrate Quiz: Once Upon A Milkweed
- Rhosgobel: Radagast’s home – More Sluggy Cuteness
- Niches: Marbled Orb Weaver
- bootstrap analysis: Circus of the Spineless #4
- Balloon Juice: Pet Blogging: Russell
- Running Scared: Blog Your Dog: Kenya
- Duck Pond: Friday Night Dog Blog – Final Fling 2005: Sasha and Taffy
- Athenamama: Angel’s Story
- sleeping mommy: The Dogs and The Cats of the house
- A Stitch In Haste: Friday Diamond Blogging — Merry Christmas
- Doug Petch.Com: Blog Your Dog: Keen
- 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera: The Last Friday Creature Friday Creature of 2005 is about to face the Trimmer of Doom
- Firefly Forest Blog: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
- Watermark: Critter Resolutions
- Dohiyi Mir: Friday Critterblogging: Cairo, Sam and Chickadee
- Mike: I Love This dog: Champ
- The People’s Republic of Seabrook: Feel The Power Of The Puppy
- Farmgirl Fare: Weekend Dog Blogging #15: Looking… boarded 1/1
- One Day At A Time: My Hawaiian Bird Journal
- Living the Scientific Life: snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca and much more in Birds in the News #41
- 10,000 Birds: Red Breasted Nuthatch
- Danielle’s Den: The Weekend
- Facing South: Friday Bird Blogging: Tricolored Heron
- Birding is NOT a crime!!!!: Snail Kites and Limpkins
- Bird Ecology Study Group: Folivores – birds that feed on leaves: Asian Glossy Starling (Aplonis panayensis)
- Bird brained stories!: The Bird in the Winter
- Dohiyi Mir: Friday Critterblogging: Cairo, Sam and Chickadee
- Thomasburg Walks: Counting Birds
- Mike’s Birding & Digiscoping Blog: Pop Quiz: Seven Sparrows
- Outside In: If You Find It, Enjoy It: Pelican
- milkriverblog: Not Really A Cat Friday: Texas’ firstSnow Bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis boarded 12/31
- afarensis: Zooarchaeology, Pokemon Archaeology and Climate Change: Pikas
- Danielle’s Den: The Weekend
- Firefly Forest Blog: Couch’s Spadefoot Toad (Scaphiopus couchii)
- First Draft: Friday Ferret Blogging: Holiday Edition
- Birdchick Blog: Bunny Indignity
- Watermark: Critter Resolutions
- Vermin Realm: New Meeces and Rat Ratties boarded 12/31
- Far Cartouche: Robin’s and Jonah at the Escher Tree
- Les Jones: Fiestaware Blogging
For other current carnivals check out The Conservative Cat’s Carnival Page and The TTLB Uber Carnival
Note for Haloscan Users: Haloscan started (the end of July) rejecting trackbacks if they were submitted “too rapidly” by the same host. I don’t know what the timer is but it is long enough so that it was very difficult to ping everyone that is using Haloscan for trackbacks. I’m sure that they are doing this to try to hold back the tide of trackback spam but it makes the service pretty useless for carnival type posts. Perhaps you can contact them and urge some different solution. Update: Typepad appears to be doing the same thing. Everytime I update the Ark it appears the timers are reset and the long list of MT autogenerated pings fail. Yecchhhh….