I lost my best employee today, due to being in private sector/small business.

I now your pain hospitality sector small business owner if I gave employee s health care I'd make 0-4$ an hour myself

I pay $65 a week for minimal care, high deductible. That's just for myself. Family coverage is ridiculous.

I don't blame her. We try and ease the burden by paying 80%. It's still outrageous.

It's ridiculous.

I need to edit this.

* it went to $85 a week, last week.

Last Edited by Departing Azila_Again on 05/18/2018 09:01 PM

Failed Economics did ya...LOL

So she was your best employee...ok

Let's look at it from an output standpoint

Say she produced 100 widgets a day and had no returns

your next best can only produce 60 and has 5 returns(55 net)

You now hire another with no experience...

you've got 2 options:

you let 2nd best train them

or

you take the time to train them, and forgo getting your other duties done...making you have to work later and later

So, the smart play was to cover her HC


I think the cost of Health care is the least of your worries

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And yet you're dead set against socializing healthcare in order to cut out the useless, vampiric insurance middlemen.

To me, it isn't even a question. Every US citizen should have easy access to healthcare, dammit.

Than obviously, you're not in small business.
Yes, I will train her replacement. Not a problem, as I'm not afraid of work.

You pay for one health insurance, you set yourself up for a discrimination suit by not paying everyone's.

Also, she was not educated, but did a damn good job. Started at $20 an hour.

Did you fail HR?

This is the problem with being a job creator. All of a sudden you are also on the hook for their healthcare, sickness, retirement, ect just because you could create something from nothing and give someone a job. It's almost like punishment for trying.

Absolutely correct. It's incredibly difficult to juggle it all.

It's going to get to the point where all that is left are jobs with large corporations or government sector.

Own 2 business myself, I just know how to retain my 'Best' moneymakers.

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Same here where I am, insurance is high and coverage is very low and the deductions are never met, so no worker by any majority ever gets any thing for what they pay for.
In the long run they all just opted out it and none are going to take it out again it costs them a lot for nothing.
It is better for them to at least keep their wages instead of wasting them on a huge nothing burger.

They need their earned income.
It is huge insurance mess as though it turned into a racket scheme and never got stopped.

I think you're correct. It's becoming impossible to maintain.

Better to just stay small in a area where all you need is yourself. Like heating and cooling or lawn care. Then you don't have to do all the workers comp ect.

But then there is that catch that you can't even provide decent insurance for yourself......the whole system is geared against job creators which always has been the driving force of the economy. Sucks.

I have 3.

With that being said, I do it legally. Which is becoming harder and harder.

Whatever tactics you use, more power to you.

Trump will save you.

Obama damn near killed us. Anything would be better.

Trust me, I'm HIGHLY regulated by my state's licensing board.

I just don't buy a new boat or Jag every other year.

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Yeah it's called survival mode. Lol

No, Doctors, Hospitals and Lawyers killed us.

But or Idiotic love affair with capitalism is keeping us from ANY real Health Care cost reform.

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Nor do I. I live in a modest home and drive a modest vehicle. Nothing different than you would find my employees having. I don't own a boat nor a Jag, nor would I ever feel the need to.
Apparently you do? You just don't swap out for new every other year?

Regardless, this isn't a pissing match, I could care less what you do or how you do it.

It's harder and harder to be a small business owner in America today.

All you made this thread for is to bitch about the "cost" of Healthcare, Instead of going after the true culprits

Here's the rub, If Obamacare was enacted or not, your 'best' employee would still need Health insurance due to it's rising cost

Your obvious Obama hate is Obvious...and misplaced

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So your best employee wasn't worth an extra $85 a week to you?

No Sir, it's not.
Our healthcare increased close to 500% under Obamacare.

Get your $3.50 and be on your way.

You don't own her.

Yea, She's NOT really a business owner...All she posted this for was a Obammy Bash

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$85 a week is for single coverage. Not family.

I'm with you op I have a small business and i work for a cancer unit,they just got bought out by a bigger health care provider.Many people just lost their jobs and mine also got canned,my job ends June 1 got a 60 day notice this came out of nowhere sucks.

Why on earth would you even say that? I don't own any employee. I want the best for them all, even if it's elsewhere.

I wish it were different, Azila

maybe your employess does, too

I'm sorry to hear that. It's horrible what's happening to people trying to make a living.
I too, am trying to make it and trying to help those who also try, to make it.
It sucks.