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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (436770)	11/26/2008 7:10:49 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) of 1573939

The Japanese government pays the health care costs of Toyota employees in Alabama? No, but they have a much younger workforce so lower health care costs. And in the US they probably offer much lower benefits, an advantage they have as unions have lost power. Plus the tax benefits offered to lure them to the state. And they have a uch larger portion of their entire workforce in Japan where they don't have the cost. The German government pays the health care costs of BMW employees in South Carolina? Same answer. So this is true... If the US had national health care insurance, the cost basis would change dramatically. re: Intel and Apple can't compete against Toshiba and Sony because the Japanese companies don't have to cover the cost of health care for its employees? Apples (no pun) and oranges. There isn't a lot of proprietary intellectual property in the car business. And manufacturing a chip or an iPod is a lot less labor intensive than manufacturing an auto... with transportation costs much higher which makes assembly close to the market more important. But I suppose that's all nuance to you.

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