The longer the right wing Republicans use their power over government, the more American workers get the shaft. The diminishing quality of health care available for American workers under George W. Bush’s presidency are reflected in diminishing worker satisfaction with their health care benefits. In 2003, sixty percent of American workers were satisfied with their health care benefits. In 2006, the amount of satisfaction in their health care plans by American workers had declined to 54 percent. That’s well beyond the margin of error in the study of worker attitudes by Sibson Consulting.
(Source: USA Today, September 12, 2007)
Postscript
Here’s another economic reason to elect a progressive President in 2008, and shun the right wing alternatives:
As American workers’ satisfaction with their health care benefits has declined during the latest Republican presidency, there has not been a compensation in other areas. Workers in the United States are expressing a similar diminishment in satisfaction with their retirement – from 56 percent satisfaction in 2003 to just 42 percent satisfaction in 2006. As with the decline in satisfaction with health care benefits, the decline of satisfaction with retirement benefits far exceeded the Sibson Consulting’s Rewards of Work study margin of error.
