Originally posted by dadudemon
Great thread.
As I've said, Obamacare needed to be a true Universal Healthcare option. Imagine that chart if we had UHC? Imagine how much productivity we'd get out of our poor and working class Americans if they could get healthcare for free?
I want my employees productive, active, and healthy. When they are healthy, work gets done. They are happier. We make more money. It's quite simple. I need UHC to better run the business.
I agree I was very opposed to Obamacare and the mechanisms they were going to put in place and the language they used to sell it.
Republicans need a paradigm shift in how they view the economy if you want a more productive economy you take care of the people that produce the goods and services.
When the people that are producing the goods and services are constantly struggling to take care of their families and looking at their budgets deciding if they can afford to pay for an illness/injury or keep food on the table or get new tires on the car, you have a problem.
We would do better to put a focus on production/GDP by taking care of our citizens and not corporations and wall street.