Slavery and Insurance

25 September, 2013

QUESTION: "Again, how is health insurance my employer's or any employer's responsibility?"

I have ALWAYS wondered how they make the employers responsible for your (and your family's) health care.
I know at one time they got better rates because they could buy a group plan, but how did it then become their responsibility? 

ANSWER: During the time of SLAVERY, since slaves were legal PROPERTY, it was incumbent upon slave owners to provide for the maintenance/upkeep of his slaves. It was his responsibility to feed, clothe, shelter, as well as keep healthy his slaves. Indentured servants and hirelings got NOTHING. Tenant farmers and day laborers got NOTHING. 

As we developed as a nation, people realized that there were MANY more HUMAN RIGHTS than were in fact legally provided for in the U.S. Constitution. One of those basic human rights is the right to be healthy. Trade Unions and others have lobbied and fought long and hard over the years to see to it that employees - be they factory workers, office staff, or farm hands - have the right to decent, affordable health care. Should my child live, and a poor person's child die? Is MONEY the final consideration when it comes to life? 

Three words, spoken so long ago by Jesus Christ apply here: "Feed my sheep." 

My objection to Obamacare is not that some kind of health reform is necessary, but rather the WAY we are going about implementing it. If what we're being offered was so doggone GOOD, why doesn't it apply to the very lawmakers who are foisting this faulty legislation upon us? 

We need to go back to the drawing board. Instead of just protesting, we need to work up a new program, cut all the partisan politics ON BOTH SIDES, and consider PEOPLE BEFORE POLITICS!

OUR health depends on it!