Reminding everybody why employer provided health insurance is garbage compared to universal single payer.
If I pay $350 per month, I could get the platinum-tier insurance from work that covers 80% of expenses after I pay a $7000 annual deductible.
:shrug-outta-hecks: where'd all my excuses for the terror go
Recent life experience that really helps to move my "single payer is the way" arguments from purely rhetoric to personal experience.
Wife and I are on Medicaid cause we're poor. She went in for surgery a few months ago and was telling me that the amount that was charged to Medicaid was something north of $30,000. What we owed? Zero, nothing, zip, nada. (It was a surgery that only took a few hours, she was admitted before 9AM and was out before 11AM. She feels so much better now its fucking amazing.)
$30,000 is something that we definitely couldn't have afforded when we tried to have private health insurance (which is why it took something like 15 years to get the surgery).
Seems like a union is just the thing that would help workers fight against that.
the amount of pure, unadulterated rage i feel from this headline cannot be understated
This made me want to donate to the union, but I couldn't find a way to do that! Anyone know if there's a way to give them money?
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WallTrying to turn workers against each other by driving a nonexistent wedge.
"Hey trans people, don't unionize or else"
"Look at the trans people who don't let you unionize, you should be reactionary"
Classic. Starbucks in Canada also decided to give everyone in Canada a raise to make people make slightly more than the one unionized Starbucks makes because they didn't put in a clause to have all raises also apply to them.
Starbucks is scared if they gave raises over one union, and I'm surprised they're not going all Walmart and straight up closing locations trying to unionize since I think all the standalone ones are corporate owned and not franchises.
