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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5jpp6h wrote

Reply to comment by ktxhopem3276 in If only.. by metracta

Which is ironic because those "democrat cities" are where most of the economy is. Philadelphia + the collar counties have a larger economy than every rural county in this state combined.

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69FunnyNumberGuy420 t1_j5jnvxi wrote

Reply to comment by ktxhopem3276 in If only.. by metracta

Instead, we're spending $1.3b to add eight miles to the Mon-Fayette expressway, a highway to nowhere serving nobody that was planned out in the early eighties. What a fuckin' disgrace.

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Formal_Development_4 t1_j5jewxo wrote

Reply to UPMC grew too fast, gained too much market share, report says | TribLIVE.com by imakestuffup725

If they can afford to pay their president 9 million, then they can afford to pay some taxes. I worked there a looong time ago, when they first started into health insurance, a single person policy was only $40 a pay but not now. My partner is also union and pays $10 a week for a very good health family plan. If you work in healthcare the health benefits are usually mediocre at best. Just paid $1200 for a root canal with insurance, my union partner paid $0 for exact same services ( clearly we need to up our oral care routine) LoL

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Peterthegreater-87 t1_j5jara2 wrote

Reply to comment by ScratchMoore in UPMC grew too fast, gained too much market share, report says | TribLIVE.com by imakestuffup725

The fact that employee upmc health insurance is its own extremely restrictive category is way to close to the "company store" model. Pay is ridiculous, we can't keep even doctors for too long because of it. The model is profit over people squeeze the most out of one person before thinking of spending money to hire more

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