Toronado3800
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You do realize that the OP is a press release from AT&T don't you? You do realize that when companies take billion dollar hits, the shit rolls down hill don't you? You do realize that 2+2 still equals 4 don't you? Do you think AT&T will be giving big fat bonuses to all the employees and hiring more people?
The missing fact is what Healthcare actually cost the AT&T collective as a whole. The employees and the business.
IF every employee of AT&T has access to decent medical treatment it should cost the AT&T/employee entity less.
Its not like we're not all paying for socialized medicine now. Joe Bob gets shot and shows up at the hospital. They treat him even if he has no money. ! ! ! ! ! Does the money for this magically appear? No, you and I flip the bill through taxes. (subsidies on "lost income to the hospital" state funded payments to the hospital, whatever)
Sounds like if Joe Bob is an AT&T employee next year he'll be flippin part of the bill also.
More fair to me.
Extrapolate that from AT&T down to ZZZZ Cleaners and their 50+ employees and you have a bit of savings nation wide.
A permanent answer? No. Doesn't solve the larger problem of increasing cost of treatments exceeding GDP growth. Start exporting more or figuring out ways to make MRIs and AZT cheaper while maintaining the safety standards we have.