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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (23219)	2/20/2012 8:23:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If everyone else in the company gets a Ferrari, you might expect one, but I don't think the expectation is enough to say its due. The Ferrari is supposed to be analogous to the contraception benefit, which means that it's not about everyone in the company but you getting one. It's about every employee in the country getting one and no one in your company getting one because your employer is morally opposed. If the whole country is getting Ferraris, that creates an overwhelming expectation. yours has a know policy of not doing so Once the policy is established, sure. But this law is brand new and it's not clear yet who will be affected when the Ferraris are handed out. That's like your company announcing that there will be no COLA this year. Too late to change jobs, assuming you do the kind of work where changing jobs is easy. presumably providing some other form of compensation to make up for it One of the potential ways of getting around this problem, optics wise and in reality, would be for those employers not offering the benefit to compensate with cash, which the employee could use for contraception, diapers, beer, the movies, or whatever. Everyone could believe that the employees were spending the money on something that suited their own morals, not those of the other side.