House Passes 40 Hour Work Week

[Southern Dad]

[Professor]

BTW, you may not be aware of this, but I am the person responsible in my company for keeping all 50 of our state insurance licenses current and clear. I'm the one that is ultimately responsible for these types of reports to DHHS and DHS. I might know a little something about it.

[Mr. Shaman]

[Professor]

[Professor]

BTW, Shameman, what qualifications do you have to discuss this matter? What evidence do you have to support your assertion that more revenue dollars reach providers in Medicare than in HI?

Are you aware that almost every state in the union has some type of privatized Medicaid program, where private insurance companies administer the program, resulting in reduced costs for the program and increased quality of care for the patient? If government-managed care is so much better, then how come the evidence in almost every state points to the opposite conclusion?

Here are some cold, hard facts for you. The following states paved the way for Medicaid managed care. Listed are the monetary savings that they have realized:

• North Carolina, 2003 to 2007 – 6 percent to 11 percent
• Arizona, 1983 to 1993 – 7 percent
• Michigan, 2001 to 2004 – 9 percent to 19 percent
• Kentucky, 1999 to 2003 – 3 percent to 10 percent
• South Carolina, 2009 – 8 percent

http://www.parlouisiana.org/dynaengine/ ... report.pdf

[Mr. Shaman]

[Kane]

[The dane]

Wouldn't this bill just result in a lot of people getting fired ?

Companies are simply going to go from 29 hours to 39 hours, so employees still get no benefits, and since each person works more hours, the companies will have to lay off the extra workers that are no longer needed.

[Southern Dad]

[Mr. Shaman]