Posted on 03/25/2014 6:04:56 AM PDT by xzins
True but health insurance is considered a draw for employees. I just get a little uncomfortable with the company getting involved in medical decisions. It’s a Pandora’s box and really none of their business. I mean, is it morally wrong in their view for a virgin to use birth control pills? Or someone who isn’t having sex?
Appy, if it’s their business, and they’re the ones buying, I really don’t see it as any different than the company vans they choose to purchase. Maybe they want radios and maybe they don’t. Maybe they want 12 passenger seating and maybe they don’t.
It’s their business. It’s their decision.
They were buying your loyalty by providing a benefit on top of salary for working there. You would look at that benefit and say, “Well, that’s cool. I’m not putting my application in elsewhere.” If you didn’t like the benefit, then you looked for a better deal elsewhere.
The only real obligation I saw in regard to benefits was openness about what the package included or didn’t include.
To me, the question is “Why the heck should they be buying someone’s birth control in the first place?” It isn’t even an insurance issue. There’s no one dying of condom deficiency.
And women want everyone else to pay for what they say is a “holy choice”.
That is what I don’t get. They are not saying that an employee can’t use birth control, but that the company doesn’t have to pay for.
They need to sue over the violation of personal rights. If a corporation is a legal person, they have the same legal rights and responsibilities as “real” persons.
See #22
I think there is a difference between medical care and a car. If a company says “You can’t have a Ford”, no big deal. If they say “You can’t have vaccines”, that’s a big deal
What I’m saying pappy is that it’s their money and their decision to give you a bonus to keep working for them. They don’t have to give you any bonus at all. And if they do, they can give whatever bonus they want to give.
They are not obligated to give you a bonus.
Until NOW when the government said, “You know that bonus you used to give your employees, well, we’ll be telling you what a bonus has to look like no matter what you say. And, oh by the way, if you don’t give your employees that gift bonus, we’ll be fining you for it.”
If a large business doesn’t buy insurance at all, then they pay $2000 per employee penalty for each full time employee.
That seems to me to be the better route financially for Hobby Lobby. I’m sure their insurance costs far more per full time employee than that. Let’s say each policy cost them on average $10,000.
If they got out of the insurance game altogether, they could then give each employee 8000 more in their paychecks to buy their own insurance.
Then each person could buy what they wished
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