We need Health Care for small companies

I have excellent health care. I am in a an excellent government run system called Medicare. My children are stuck with needing to choose whatever their employers can get.

I had worked as a dental technologist. It is a very small field and every dental laboratory is a small company there are a handful of dental laboratories with 100 employees. Most are dental laboratory companies have 3 or less employees. The work requires extensive training. The major expense of dental laboratories is health care.

Every company now competes in the world market. I believe that our lack of a unified health care system in the USA is a severe drag on our economy and keeps US companies non-competitive in the world market.

I could never understand the popularity of President Reagan.

But then I did not watch the evening news on TV. I was too busy working 12 hours a day 60 or more hours a week for most of my working life to have time for TV. I got all my news from the papers and read what Reagan said. It’s all vague pap when you read it; I guess it was in the delivery.

The Extremist Conservative Republicans that President Eisenhower thought would never have much clout in the Republican Party found their savior in President Reagan. The Extremist Conservatives quest to eliminate all traces of President Roosevelt’s New Deal found a leader. They were nearly completely successful.

But thank God they didn’t get their holy grail of eliminating Social Security by transferring the funds into the Stock Market. Our Social Security benefits would have been stolen by executives at Bear Sterns, AIG and (I kid you not) Nicky Scarfo's FirstPlus Finiancial Group Inc.

Read,
Reagan Did It
By PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times May 31, 2009:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1