“The new law is designed to expand coverage and bring down costs, so your assertions are a matter of concern”
Actually it's a quote from Henry Waxman, but how can anyone tell anymore. Apparently he find the lack of faith in Obamacare that's being shown by AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, and John Deere to be... disturbing.
All they're trying to do is stay in compliance with the increasingly complex and self contradictory laws coming out of the rabbit hole that Washington has turned into. They've apparently committed the sin of having something left after paying all the other 'approved' parties. Back in the old days we used to call that sort of thing 'a profit' but now it's apparently looked upon as evidence of malfeasance, and it buys you an immediate congressional inquiry.
I know this will sound odd from me, but if you can get past the whole "There goes the last of America" thing, the way that this drama is playing out is pretty entertaining. After all... many people in America now consider it their right to have a service performed for them, and to have the bill presented to someone else. That really makes for some stirring prose huh?
"...Life, Liberty, and 30 hours per year of someone else's work, where the bill for that work is sent to someone with less political pull than you."
Thomas Jefferson eat your heart out.
My wife (who as you know grew up under communism) has a great saying for it. She says that understanding socialism requires "permanently suspended disbelief." We live in a world where the desire to keep money that you earned is considered "greedy", spending money that someone else earned is considered "a moral imperative", and turning a profit is considered proof that you've somehow broken the law.
Still ...It would be a lot funnier if it were just fiction.
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