Overheard discussion by medical nsurance company employees. I was working registering
blood donors in their lobby. The three women at the customer service desk had just come from a Kool-Aid party with their CEO. This was right after the ACA had passed.
The first thing I hear is one saying, "people are just having to have to get used to higher deductibles and copays." I wanted to yell, what the hell for? So the big bosses can take more money to build bigger castles?
Then they started in on what the CEO had said about Obama and his out of control spending. They were getting deficit and debt mixed up, so either they or their CEO didn't have clue. I kind of suspect it was the women. None of whom have jobs any more. They shut down the customer service desk.
The place boomed in the few years before that. In a town of about 50,000 people they built the only parking garage and a big new building to house a call center. That's shut down not too, and the campus is like a ghost town.
I bet most of them that no longer have jobs blame it all on Obama, but none of what was going on was sustainable. Things have to shake out so people get medical care for what they can afford to pay. Anyone in the insurance or medical field should have understood that to begin with. We can't afford to pay for all the expensive procedures, equipment , well paid workers in the medical field, and make their corporate officers and share holders wealthy.
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