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Originally Posted by NYGUY
We can quit saying we will never vote for Universal Healthcare. We will be dead. Those coming after us will vote for it. This is an interesting conversation, but 20 year old's should be having it.
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Yes they should ... but will they?
I was fortunate, throughout my HR career, to have worked at several fine (and generous) NY professional practice firms in both the legal and accounting industries.
And while the firms' contribution for employees was a generous percentage of the medical premium, they all had some sort of an employee contribution. Young people starting out have many competing desires for their entry level salaries ... first car, apartment, clothes, vacations, tuition loan repayments, etc.
I can not count how many times I counseled a new employee who chose not to participate in the medical -- even using scare tactics such as "... I know you are healthy and invincible ... but what if, god forbid, your appendix bursts without warning. Who is going to help you? Do you really want to put your parents at risk and possibly have to ask them to spend their retirement savings, or worse, sell their home because you didn't signup for medical coverage?"
Occasionally my tactic was successful. (Same was true with 401K signups where the company had a match program!) Try convincing this population that it is the best financial move available to them.
They can be a difficult demographic for discussions about healthcare and retirement issues.