Quote: Originally Posted by nasum If your reply was a game of darts, you would have just the outer ring of the board 8ft to the side of the one we're playing on.

Nice non-reply. Thanks.

Quote: Originally Posted by mykevermin [...]you allow one business to provide a different quality of health care coverage than another[...]

Why not?

We allow businesses to pick and choose rates of pay, hours, schedules, retirement benefits, vacations, etc., etc. Why not allow a private business to determine what level of health insurance they wish to provide and let the potential employees use that as part of the process to determine who they wish to work for?

Perhaps the government should set *all* aspects of employment at a single, universal level? Every employee at every business will make exactly $10.75/hour. No more, no less. Every employee will work exactly 40 hours. No more, no less. Every employee will get two weeks of paid vacation, no more, no less. Every employee will be entitled to 5 "personal days" off without pay. No more, no less.

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