It is interesting that large companies pushing back at the health care changes fail to mention that they have been riding the backs of their low-cost employees to amass huge margins and large personal wealth. These companies and their principal owners find ways to afford Super Bowl commercials, naming rights to stadiums and massive homes, but they cannot get creative with their personnel cost challenges.
Can you really trust a company to deliver a quality product when their quest for large profit devalues their workforce? Maybe allocating some of the profit to salaries and benefits could, in fact, grow sales as well. Maybe a stronger employee base will improve quality, which will grow sales.
Do quality companies tackle challenges via the media? These actions actually expose the public to the greedy tactics that have allowed these entities to create personal wealth. Large marketing campaigns subsidized by low workforce cost (minimum wage/no benefits) have generated margins for the giant corporations and franchises that they do not want to give back.
If these anti-health care tactics are actually implemented then the workforce delivering the services could deteriorate to the point that product quality will suffer.
The public needs to be greedy, too; judging quality not on the commercials or a company's "media face" but on the products and services.
Blaming health care changes is a smokescreen to perpetuate the greed and the lack of respect for the workforce. Companies with these values should not be supported by the public.
MARK TREMONT
Clifton Park