A Word on Mandatory Health Care for Employees

Farms that own livestock provided for consumer use must provide for the health of their livestock. The overall health of the animal must meet a specified standard as determined by the FDA or appropriate regulatory commission. Same applies for all crops provided for public consumption.

If this is required for all livestock without argument, how can we say employees do not require the same regulatory provisions? Employers that utilize employees 30 hours or more per week to operate machinery, prepare food, facilitate the sales of goods and services are required by law to provide a minimum of health care for those employees. What if there were no regulatory previsions for livestock/crops that were slaughtered/harvested before 30 weeks? Would you feel safe eating those meats, fruits or vegetables?

Some may argue the argument is like comparing apples to oranges. So let us use another comparative example. To complain that mandatory employee health care prevents you from gaining full time employment is no different than complaining that you cannot find a job because employers are required to pay a minimum wage. This, by the way, is exactly the argument employers tried to present when the minimum wage law went into effect as a result of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

Also, mandatory health care for employees is not an Obama plan. This resolution has been tossed about since its first legislation to Senate as a Truman Bill in 1949-1950. It was revisited and shot down during the Clinton administration.

Now, we return to the significance to the livestock. The health care of employees has nothing to do with your care and fair treatment. This argument within your government came about as a result of incidents such as we have seen in the, now infamous, account of Typhoid Mary. She contracted typhoid as a health care provider and spread the virus to patients. It was the only job she knew and faced the option of being unemployable or spreading the contagion. So, this issue goes beyond the language of the bill to the necessity of health care to those individuals that handle your food, medicines, place their hands upon your body. A part time employed infected by Ebola may spread Ebola to you completely unknown to anyone or any health care agency simply because he doesn't have access to affordable health care.

More food for thought as we continue to struggle to provide you truth and you continue to deny it. 

http://www.lulu.com/shop/jd-cumberland/idolatry/ebook/product-21748450.html