Employees work hard for them not to be laid out from work and because of their jobs,
they have health care benefits. Health care benefits are a good help for employees
for in their job, they get to work hard and their hard work is being paid not only by
paychecks but also by the health care benefits. In case they get sick they'd be able to use this benefit
to pay for their hospital bills. There has been a study out this week saying that health care
trend is going down. Because of this, employees are not benefited, instead, its their employers who gets the benefits.
Companies survive by shifting health care costs to workers. As huge amount is deducted
from the workers' paycheck, employers benefits from this by adding the savings as theirs.

http://http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2010/09/02/health-care-costs/

Bigger picture, unhealthy workers will cut your productivity and growth by half, if not completely.

Bigger picture, the costs to lose biodiversity caused by climate change will be $162B (1.4% US GDP) to $399B (3.5% US GDP) annually: http://bit.ly/1vYFdt.

I agree $1.5T is cheap.

http://www.justmeans.com/American-Policy-Saving-Trillions-Part-1-Biodiversity-Costs/5249.html

Who ever said we could afford to bail out AIG? Getting in debt for one cause does not mean we can afford to get in more debt. Quite the opposite. How about we pay off one loan before getting into another? Perhaps the government should figure out how it can keep Medicare, Social Security, and the Post Office from all going bankrupt, before trying to start something else it can't afford.

There is no free lunch! Please remember that $150 B of spending per year = >$1,000 for each and every working individual in the US. Be prepared to pay more taxes or stradle our children with an ever growing debt burden.

That's a relatively cheap price for such an wonderful thing as universal healthcare. If we can spend 170 billion dollars to save AIG, I think we can spend $170 billion to have a decent healthcare system that helps everyone.