Is medical & health coverage as a job benefit on the way out? Corporations like the US auto companies now claim they are not economically competitive if they are forced to provide health & medical care and treatment to their employees & their spouses or their retirees & their spouses under prior worker-employee benefit agreements or benefit understandings? They claim the costs of health and medical care of their wage employees is too big a cost component in the unit price of their products (, ie cars and trucks).

So where do we go now from here ?

Especially if you are a wage employee and not a member of the upper management elite which are provided health and medical care benefits till death and maybe beyond , no matter what happens to the business in the future? Didn’t Jack Welch the retired CEO include regular delivery of toilet paper supplies as a retirement benefit?
You can’t minimize or excuse the fact that upper managements give them- selves entitlements (your word) that they routinely deny the employees they manage. I make no apology for calling them an elite–a priviledged power elite on that basis. Personally I think the health care system situation doesn’t the elite because their needs have been taken care of irrespective of how high costs rise or what further restrictive conditions on treatment and care are imposed on the rest of us.
amendment: "…doesn’t personally affect the elite because…"
My Q is not about the unions or their faults. That is not the issue of my Q. It is a non-productive *red herring to bring it up.

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Can bacteria change from good to bad? In the book I read, the good bacteria in the humans bodies and bacteria around them was changing into bad bacteria that was deadly. Like anthrax, it’s "good" brother are plasmids. Can someone tell me if this can actually happen, can bacteria actually change into bad bacteria?

If I’m going to be put under for an hour or 2, what drug is most commonly used to put someone "to sleep"?

My 4 month old weimaraner puppy has little red spots on her chest. I would compare them to large flea bites, but she doesn’t have fleas. The area is only about 4"x4" and her vaccination was given on the 16th. I am just wondering if symptoms can show up after so many days.

What is something a medical assistant can do that an average person would not know that a medical assistant could do?
Basically I am loking for something "off the wall" that an MA would have to do that an average person wouldn’t think an MA would do.

I think "Locke" has been on the island before. And has some type of agenda with Claire’s baby. I think the computer controls the black smoke which is actually tiny shards of metal, or "Nano-bots". I also think Sayid, Charlie, and Jack have the "sickness", which involves Mental illness, and hallucination. I think that the guy who sayid tortured last week, IS an OTHER!! Well, Go ahead…post ‘em….there’s no "right or wrong" idea. Like the fact that some of the "others" are Poisin Elves….You can laugh, but I’m just saying it anyway.
That’s it??? 3 people have ideas about LOST, I’m sooooo dissapointed!

A virus is foreign RNA enters the body and actually becomes part of the cell’s DNA. Cancer is caused when the DNA of a cell becomes mutated one way or another and the cell will divide and replicate uncontrollably. Both "virused" and cancerous cells are cells with mutations in the DNA. To me, virus is just RNA that causes mutation from the outside whereas cancer is mutations that come from within. Where is the real difference between these two mutations, if not in potency and ability to damage the body?

When I used to donate blood, I would feel tired the next
day, but I had no other significant side effects. I always
drink plenty both before and after donating, but the last
two times I’ve had a low-grade fever (chills/sweats) and
significant joint stiffness for two days afterward.

Are there other steps I can take to minimize thes side
effects?
One of the answerers pointed to a web
site which states there are no side
effects. So do I believe an expert
or do I believe my "lying eyes"
I’ve gotten slightly sick both of the
last two times.

I wonder if the beds in the blood
mobile could be a vector for the flu
virus? Maybe the puncture wound makes
me more susceptible to infection?

I will mention that the Red Cross
person who took my blood did mention
that some people report "flu-like"
symptoms after donation, so maybe I’m
not the only person to experience this.

Does it make the guy experience a mind-blowing orgasm? Is the prostate really considered a man’s "g-spot"? Will it take something longer than a finger to reach the outside walls of the prostate gland? How delicate is the process of penetration in a man’s anus? SPECIFIC and INFORMATIVE details will be appreciated. Please go beyond answering my questions if needed. Thanks!

Especially on Facebook, like "What color is your bra", "where do you like your purse" and now the whole "inches" thing… I support victims of breast cancer, but their tactics of raising awareness are very repelling and inappropriate.

There is a health inspection for all apartments in my building tomorrow. We have a couple small (one maybe 18 inches long, varying in width half an inch to about three inches, the other just a maybe 2" x 2" patch in the other corner) patches of mold in our ceiling along the corners. It’s been there for a while, and spreads extremely slowly. As we’ve never noticed any smells or health problems, we’ve never taken action on it.

I’m just wondering, what course of action will likely be taken when the apartment manager and health inspector see it?

There is a health inspection for all apartments in my building tomorrow. We have a couple small (one maybe 18 inches long, varying in width half an inch to about three inches, the other just a maybe 2" x 2" patch in the other corner) patches of mold in our ceiling along the corners. It’s been there for a while, and spreads extremely slowly. As we’ve never noticed any smells or health problems, we’ve never taken action on it.

I’m just wondering, what course of action will likely be taken when the apartment manager and health inspector see it?

There is a health inspection for all apartments in my building tomorrow. We have a couple small (one maybe 18 inches long, varying in width half an inch to about three inches, the other just a maybe 2" x 2" patch in the other corner) patches of mold in our ceiling along the corners. It’s been there for a while, and spreads extremely slowly. As we’ve never noticed any smells or health problems, we’ve never taken action on it.

I’m just wondering, what course of action will likely be taken when the apartment manager and health inspector see it?

My son was deemed a "suspected swine flu" case today. I was told that he was contagious 2 days prior to onset of fever (which would have made him contagious Friday). When could he have been exposed?

There is a health inspection for all apartments in my building tomorrow. We have a couple small (one maybe 18 inches long, varying in width half an inch to about three inches, the other just a maybe 2" x 2" patch in the other corner) patches of mold in our ceiling along the corners. It’s been there for a while, and spreads extremely slowly. As we’ve never noticed any smells or health problems, we’ve never taken action on it.

I’m just wondering, what course of action will likely be taken when the apartment manager and health inspector see it?