Is privatized health care killing the car industry in America?
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no management is.all these idiots blaming unions for getting employees an actual living wage are crazy.if they make cars that look good and get good gas mileage along with a decent warranty people would buy them.
UNIONS are killing the car industry in America. Duh!
Schlock.
Just do an Iaccoca and remove another layer of paint, blame the rust on the bird-watchers and the improved profits on management skills.
No, unions are. The idea is, American car manufacturers still have to hire Union workers. Foreign manufacturers, even those who operate in the U.S., refuse to. And Unions are demanding outrageous salaries for their work, enough where the American companies are having trouble paying the.
In other words, unions are causing their own demise.
Let me guess, you think that WE should pay that money for healthcare and not the businesses?
So people on this site are basically saying that the worker does not deserve a living wage nor health care. Pathetic!
My boyfriend runs his own law firm and cannot afford health care for himself or his children. Health costs are outrageous!
My car is on Medicare.
It is the insurance companys providing the coverage that is killing the industry.
No. That would be the unions. The unions forced the GM into those bad contracts, not private health companies.
Seriously, how in the world does the health care industry have any influence on a car company? Did you even put any thought into this question before you asked? Talk about apples and oranges.
Certainly, paying health insurance premiums and retirement benefits has an adverse effect on the profitability of all U.S. carmakers.
However, foreign carmakers with U.S. plants (for example, BMW in South Carolina, Mercedes in Alabama, Hyundai in Alabama, Subaru in Indiana, Toyota in California, Kentucky and Texas, Honda in Alabama and Ohio, Nissan in Tennessee and Mississippi, etc.) also have to pay these costs -- although they may not be as high because those plants have not been around as long (and so have fewer retirees) and the health care coverage that they offer may be different and less generous. These carmakers are also part of "the car industry in America" and seem to be doing quite well -- even though they also have to deal with this country's privatized health care system. They are opening new plants all over the place, while GM has closed twelve plants over the past year or so.
The "car industry in America" seems pretty alive to me -- it's just not the same car industry that it was 30 years ago.
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