okay
you think health benefits probably the the most important
yes for because most people are aging getting older and the benefits uh the benefits are going up i mean the price is going up
that's true that
everything seems to go up
that that's the case or the problem i have i'm getting older and uh the wife and uh we
use the doctors more have um more health problems and that is a very important benefit that uh
yeah see here where well here where i live all the benefits have been going up lately up on health and there are hospitals that have we have a one cent tax and then
what
um-hum
now Bush is coming up with this health plan so i don't know much much about it then
no i've i haven't really studied that too much but uh that is one of the benefits that uh
that i feel that uh is real good
with uh the company i work for so far but uh it it's uh
you know what's gonna happen their costs keep going up as you say and it's uh it could wipe a a family out or uh all your savings and everything one one serious illness
yes
yeah one illness will do it
i think that's uh one of the benefits that we really need to our companies need really need to take a look at because there's so many Americans that are not covered at all that's uh
quite a situation i think the other thing uh security and that that's getting pretty tough now a a a job with security
yes
uh especially if you're in uh department of defense or you're in the auto industry been working for fifteen or twenty years and all of a sudden uh
because of changes in Europe this uh
holidays holidays so many people are losing their jobs and uh i don't know how you can as as a benefit how you could have have security as one but most people like to have that security in their jobs
yeah i would i would think so well that's one of the main main i would think one of the main securities that you would need is health benefit
um-hum
i'll say yeah it really is and uh it's uh you really feel sorry for those who don't have it or they have a
uh cancer or something real serious that uh could runs up their uh transplant heart transplant or something runs up into
uh um hundreds of thousands of dollars
yes
that could wipe you out in a hurry
well we i have my sister died and she had some benefits that helped through her well they had her hooked up and everything but that helped her helped us through it
good good good a good thing that uh they she had those i think there's other uh
well there's other benefits that uh kind of or look at i guess uh need a vacation once in a while most jobs do that
really
uh give you some time off and uh that's something that uh
each company's a little different on that but most of them are pretty good on those uh those type of benefits i think
um-hum just just with the benefits going up it's just there's not a whole lot you can do about it really
no there isn't and another one i think is uh quite important of course is retirement system that they they have
yes
and uh with social security and uh the way it is if that's all you got is social security by then
you're not gonna make it very far
right by the time i get up there uh in a few years and uh draw social security with the cost of living uh that benefit is just really not gonna help very much
no i don't think that would
uh the older the older you probably you would probably need more help
um-hum
because you know a lot of elderly most of the elderly people don't have the money and the ones that do well they have insurance so
no
um-hum yeah
it's it's just a i think it they need to extend them
because we're we're paying here a lot
um-hum yes
and
i think the elderly needs it more than anything
that's true and uh it seems like it goes up every year you have no control over the the cost to you and that just takes away your buying power also and uh
the company of course i can see the company's side uh too because uh they have to pay uh an a proportion of whatever the
the health cost is and it gets to the point where uh they're not uh making money and uh
yeah
it uh
i don't wanna see us to go socialized medicine like they are in England or places like that
no
but still uh i i hope that this plan that uh the President's come up with uh is gonna help all those or help some way
bottom line though who's gonna pay for it
really have they got it have they already signed that or that's not signed yet is it
no no he he just uh proposed it and uh
the republicans are saying hey it's a great plan the democrats say it's no good so
well they
