and causing so many americans who actually work for a living to choose between not having health insurance or paying as much as $900 a month to get their family covered?

they are cutting costs and thats why they cut out the health insurance.

i think they should give insurance and cut out all the bullshit that they spend money on.

insurance is important!

It's too expensive. The cost of health care in this country is the highest in the World.

It used to be just assumed that employers would pay for health coverage. Then two things happened. One thing was the end of the 'social contract', an unwritten contract of loyalty between employers and employees. This resulted in benefits for employees being cut everywhere--once one company cut t others did to 'stay competitive'. It also resulted in companies laying off employees even when time were good and making the remaining employees work longer hours.

The second thing was that health insurance just got really expensive! Just since Bush has been in office the cost of health insurance has risen by 70%. And it was considered a crisis even then!