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What Happened to our Health Insurance????

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WhiskeyRobber

I sometimes will wait to pay the light bill but...

http://www.radio-info.com/sections/...back-after-unknowingly-losing-it-for-2-months

"The problem first began for nearly 30 staffers of West Palm Beach, Florida’s WFTL-AM (850) & WMEN-AM (640) in Fort Lauderdale when they discovered they no longer had company-sponsored health insurance. AHN reports station owner James Crystal Enterprises allegedly didn’t pay the premiums, leaving the workers without coverage."
 
I don't know which generates more schadenfreude... the incompetence of JC radio or the irony of a station full of conservative talk hosts who bleat about a certain attempt to reform health care making it impossible for small business to keep employee healthcare, while their employer can't maintain coverage under the CURRENT system!
 
Say what you will about big corporate radio...they always pay their insurance premiums, and their paychecks don't bounce...as long as you're still on the payroll.
 
TheBigA said:
Say what you will about big corporate radio...they always pay their insurance premiums, and their paychecks don't bounce...as long as you're still on the payroll.
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I agree with you TheBigA! Small ownerships are frightening in my eyes. Seems those that are around are "creepy" at best...and lets face it...if you have ever had the displeasure of working at one you know it can be working for someone who treats the place like he is The Emperor in Star Wars LOL Below link is a small radio ownership example...an example of how like in the Wizard of OZ you don't want to look behind the curtain ROFLOL

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=148543.0
 
I once worked for a small owner who actually had a "casting couch" in his office. People older than me have told me it was not unique.
 
Don't worry about a thing. All you have to do is call your government advocate who will tell you what to do, and all will be well. When you reach senior citizen age - whatever that becomes - every five years you can be consoled by the "end of life issues" classes that are in the new health care bill as well. You can just name your government advocate as your guardian in the new health care bill's requirement that you have an advance medical directive.

And by the way, the undertakers and life insurance companies have read the bill, because they have their auto-dialers going, calling to ask if you have your "end of life issues and affairs" in order.

Don't worry about a thing. The President has urged all the seniors to start calling Congress to tell them to pass it. You'll be just fine. Enough jobs lost and somebody else not paying the freight, and more and more people will beg for the government to do it all. Just hang in there awhile.
 
There's no longer a "middle class" in radio ownership. Not much buffer zone between the hatchet-men of the megacorps and the creepy little two-tower specials at the end of the dirt road. The companies in the middle always seemed to be the best in times past. The Jefferson-Pilots, the Bonnevilles, etc.
 
smedge2006 said:
The companies in the middle always seemed to be the best in times past. The Jefferson-Pilots, the Bonnevilles, etc.
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They're still around. Jeff-Pilot is now Lincoln Financial. Bonneville is still a good company. But there's another thread here that says even they are cutting back their benefits.
 
Last I heard was they ended the problems with the screwup prone United Health Care and went with Blue Cross. Sometimes it's better to pay a little more and know what you're getting.
I wonder if the Palm Beach Post will put that in the paper?
 
Ask all the unemployed folks from CC, Lincoln Financial and Beasley how they like their current health care coverage.
 
otherradioboy said:
Ask all the unemployed folks from CC, Lincoln Financial and Beasley how they like their current health care coverage.
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That seems to be the object; as many people on the street as possible until they beg for the government to take authority over their persons and just hand over their liberty to get it.
 
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