Posted by Jennifer
a resident of another community
on Jan 16, 2024 at 4:53 pm
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So, Newsom thinks it's okay to pay fast food workers (a job that belongs to teenagers) $20 an hr. and health care workers are delayed $25? How many health care workers earn minimum wage? I would think their pay would be higher.

Posted by Resident 1-Adobe Meadows
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 18, 2024 at 11:44 am
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Talking health here - now getting the tax data for our 2024 tax payments. Check out the Social Security recap. My Medicare B and Medicare D withholds more than doubled during the year 2023 vs 2022. More than the health insurance premiums. WOW - I am paying big time due to the use of mailing zones to determine payment limitations.

So what about the "great idea" of making CA an insurance holder for medical costs? How does that jive with the fact that many are already paying big time in their SSN payments - that is Federal - not state. And if you are not yet on SSN then the withhold in your employee paycheck is already starting to allocate to the eventual payments deducted from your FICA tax withheld. Remember FICA? If you are an employee of a company then they are required to withhold and match up to a limit. That is why they use H1b People - those H1b people work for a separate company/subcontractor who is responsible for that requirement.

So how does that affect our local medical providers - PAMC / Sutter Health. Note the changes in what is happening there - when I go in for a specific problem, my incoming mail on the internet is flooded with that topic and resolutions to that topic - go buy something being sold. So Google/others are participating in your health problems because your data is being sold to the great market place of health data.

Sutter Health and it's companion companies - Kaiser are having trouble now - their cost of doing business is outstripping their ability to keep their doors open. A number of the doctors that I met also work out of the San Carlos facility so they are trying to disperse patients to locations that have a lower cost of living. I don't have an answer for all of this other then that our state finances are being turned on the head.