What if A People's Health Insurance Company was organized and incorporated? What if The People's Health Insurance Company should differ from other insurance companies is some significant ways?
First, the structures in which every employee of The People's Health Insurance Company worked would be modest. They would be comfortable for the employees because, unlike the insurance corporations that presently exist, the leaders of The People's Health Insurance Company would realize that most of their employees, those who make whatever profit the company may incidentally make, are people in need of fairly priced health insurance and a living wage. The People's Health Insurance Company would use the greenest of technologies to provide comfortable working conditions for its employees. There would not be one unnecessary gadget, decoration or other expense put into the structures in which every and any employee worked.
Secondly, although no one would earn less than a living wage, no one would earn more than a living wage. Granted, the more responsibility one has in The People's Health Insurance Company, the more one would be paid. This means that employees in the highest positions in the company would earn about $250,000 per year. The top employee, whether a president or a CEO, would earn no more than four times what the lowest paid employee earned. That would be the guideline which The People's Health Insurance Company would always use for defining the pay scale for its employees.
Thirdly, when any one of its employees fails to meet her or his expectations and a decision is made that he or she is not a good fit for her or his position the company would do whatever it could to keep the employee and find something of value which the employee could do. However, if the company must part ways with any of its employees because that employee refused to do the job for which she or he was being paid, the company would cease to pay that employee. This may not seem unusual and it should not be unusual. Nonetheless, one way in which The People's Health Insurance Company would differ from other insurance companies is that this policy would hold true for all cases, including those involving the highest positions of management, including the CEO. The CEO or leader of The People's Insurance Company would not continue to be paid if she or he left the company on unfavorable terms.
The employees would, of course, have the right to organize so that the fair labor practices which were put into place in the beginning would be able to withstand the unforeseen leadership of a potential future greedy leader.
The lack of ornamentally extravagant surroundings coupled with the fair pay practices would be the reason The People's Health Insurance Company would be able to offer everyone and anyone who is a citizen of the US or is even visiting the US any medical care necessary. It would not be free as our government insists that a profit must be realized from the illnesses or injuries of Americans. There would be a payment expected. That payment would be a monthly premium based upon a sliding scale. That premium would be the only payment expected of the clients. There would be no one in the United States who The People's Health Insurance Company would not cover. In fact, it is quite possible that those who now receive coverage through their employers would view The People's Health Insurance Company as a competitive option. It is quite possible that The People's Health Insurance Company would help to lift the burden of providing health care support from businesses large and small. It is quite possible that The People's Health Insurance Company would even provide "special arrangements for people who worked for large American based corporations who kept their manufacturing facilities in this country or returned those facilities to this country. The People's Health Insurance Company would reserve the right to audit the pay practices of corporations to make certain that they pay their employees what The People's Health Insurance Company would consider a living wage.
The People's Health Insurance Company would not turn anyone away who needed health care support. This includes those who are today protesting on behalf of wealthy insurance company CEOs and/or protesting our president's skin color. Those people would come to The People's Health Insurance Company for health insurance in spite of the fact that they are today not allowing our government to provide health care support for them.
Finally, there are medical providers who also want to see universal health care implemented, but who want to make sure that they are also treated fairly. The People's Health Insurance Company would operate under the premise that providers entered the occupation to provide medical care to people, not to become wealthy from merely doing a job. The People's Health Insurance Company should look forward to working with doctors, nurses and medical facilities whose main goal is to promote the general welfare. These would be proud and patriotic Americans who realize that illness and injury do not exist for the purpose of providing them a generous paying job.
Admittedly, this is only a straw man for what The People's Health Insurance Company could do.
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