http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/15/florida-dennys-owner-to-add-5-percent-obamacare-surcharge-to-bills Comments On: Florida Denny's Owner to Add 5 Percent Obamacare Surcharge to Bills by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The story I heard, and which seems credible, is that during the Second World War, the wage controls in effect made the provision of health insurance about the only good employers could offer employees at a time when the workers were being worked particularly hard.

Add the negative power of the word 'socialism', the system's working fairly well for the Good People (and very well for the Best People), and a great deal of inertia, and you have the current situation.
Posted by Gerald Fnord]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:12:26 -0800 The Stranger
1.) Maybe he assumes that anyone already eating at Denny's feels they have no other choice.


Posted by Gerald Fnord]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:01:55 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Patricia Kayden]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:39:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:07:56 -0800 The Stranger
That's really the logical conclusion to tipping in the first place. Restaurant owners won't compensate their employees fairly, so we, the customers, have to do it.
Posted by keshmeshi]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:31:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by catsnbanjos]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:12:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by catsnbanjos]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:12:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sperifera]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:09:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ruth Evershed]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:57:20 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Clayton]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:43:25 -0800 The Stranger
(The big story in the next 5 years will be talented professionals who quit their corporate gig to start a small business because now they can get insurance for their sick kid. Watch and see. These whiners are just giving the next wave of entrepreneurs a wider niche to fill.)
Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:14:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by matt!]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:13:19 -0800 The Stranger Posted by nador]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:06:44 -0800 The Stranger As I said above (@10), I'm unlikely to eat at a Denny's, anyway. But assuming, for the sake of argument, that all restauranteurs are going to feel a crunch, and they will all have to raise the prices by 5% to cover health care costs for employees (as part of the listed price--not as a politically labled surcharge"), I return to the second part of what I said, above. I can afford an extra fifty cents on a plate of food far more easily than a waitress can afford health care under the current system.


Posted by Clayton]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:57:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Aurora Erratic]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:49:33 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Senor Guy]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:31:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by LukeJoe]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:16:45 -0800 The Stranger
This is pathetic crybabying and it'll probably lose him more business than the higher price would have on its own.
Posted by MRM]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:59:58 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:55:00 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:53:40 -0800 The Stranger
Some sick waiter breathing on your Grand Slam Breakfast is the "current" state at his Denny's reasturants.
Posted by MrBaker]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:30:16 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Proteus]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:29:09 -0800 The Stranger It's not just restaurant owners, believe me. There are lots of similar jobs out there.

And yes, the owners are used to treating their servers like piles of shit who do not deserve medical treatment if they get sick or hurt. God knows, the employees can't afford treatment out of pocket.
It's another case of, "I've got mine, fuck the rest of you!"

Anyone know of a list of restaurant owners (or other employers) who are being dicks this way?
I'd really like one for Colorado so I know where NOT to go. And if there is a list of employers who support Obamacare, I'd like that too. Thanks.
Posted by swing state voter]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:27:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by npage148]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:24:44 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Digitocalypse]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:19:23 -0800 The Stranger