[Vision2020] The CO-OP Sells Stuff From China/Wal-Mart Salary

[Donovan Arnold]

Tom,
  
 Now you are fabricating stuff I  wrote. What I said was that many Wal-Mart employees make more than you  do. And that their insurance is better than UI student health insurance.
  
  I never made a reference about your health insurance, which you get  from the federal government from a previous job, not from a job  currently held in Moscow. 
  
 The federal government can  provide great health insurance because they can run $6 trillion in the  hole, hire and train their own doctors, nurses, and assistances, and  build their own hospitals, a private business cannot.
  
  -DJA

Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:                    st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) }                    Arnold stated:
     
    &#8220;Many  people at Wal-mart make more than you do. The Wal_Mart health insurance  program is better than the UI Student Health Insurance program, and it  comes with the job.&#8221;
     
    If,  by your latter sentence, you are suggesting that Wal-Mart is better  than the insurance program in which I am a member, Arnold, let me fully  assure you that you couldn&#8217;t be more wrong.
     
    I  am NOT a subscriber/user/member of UI&#8217;s Blue Cross insurance  plan.  I am a member of Tri-Care.  Tri-Care&#8217;s premiums are  virtually non-existent.  The most I ever pay for prescriptions  under Tri-Care&#8217;s co-pay policy is $9.00.  As far as  medical/hospital coverage under Tri-Care is concerned:  Two years  ago I underwent a double hernia operation at Gritman.  In addition  to the operation, Tri-Care covered a two-night stay at Gritman.   The invoice total was in excess of $10,000.  Out-of-pocket I paid  $359.50.  My Tri-Care policy currently expires at age 65.   However, due to slow and deliberate degeneration of Medicare,  consideration is currently being given to extending Tri-Care policies  for life.
     
    The reason why I explained this, Arnold,  is to suggest that not only should UI adopt an insurance program  comparable to Tri-Care, but Wal-Mart should offer its employees nothing  less.
     
    And . . . oh, yeah . . . my Tri-Care  policy came with my job up until I retired and continues to this day.
     
    Take care, Moscow.
     
    Tom Hansen
    Moscow, Idaho  
     
    &#8220;I  think one of the best ways to support education is to make successful  private schools like Logos prosper through tax exemption.&#8221;
  
  - Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005) 
    
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