[speaker001:] okay you think health benefits probably the the most important
[speaker002:] yes for because most people are aging getting older and the benefits uh the benefits are going up I mean the price is going up
[speaker001:] that's true that
[speaker002:] everything seems to go up
[speaker001:] that that's the case or the problem I have I'm getting older and uh the wife and uh we use the doctors more have um more health problems and that is a very important benefit that uh
[speaker002:] yeah see here where well here where I live all the benefits have been going up lately up on health and there are hospitals that have we have a one cent tax and then
[speaker001:] what um-hum
[speaker002:] now Bush is coming up with this health plan so I don't know much much about it then
[speaker001:] no I've I haven't really studied that too much but uh that is one of the benefits that uh that I feel that uh is real good with uh the company I work for so far but uh it it's uh you know what's gonna happen their costs keep going up as you say and it's uh it could wipe a a family out or uh all your savings and everything one one serious illness
[speaker002:] yes yeah one illness will do it
[speaker001:] I think that's uh one of the benefits that we really need to our companies need really need to take a look at because there's so many Americans that are not covered at all that's uh quite a situation I think the other thing uh security and that that's getting pretty tough now a a a job with security
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] uh especially if you're in uh department of defense or you're in the auto industry been working for fifteen or twenty years and all of a sudden uh because of changes in Europe this uh holidays holidays so many people are losing their jobs and uh I don't know how you can as as a benefit how you could have have security as one but most people like to have that security in their jobs
[speaker002:] yeah I would I would think so well that's one of the main main I would think one of the main securities that you would need is health benefit
[speaker001:] um-hum I'll say yeah it really is and uh it's uh you really feel sorry for those who don't have it or they have a uh cancer or something real serious that uh could runs up their uh transplant heart transplant or something runs up into uh um hundreds of thousands of dollars
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] that could wipe you out in a hurry
[speaker002:] well we I have my sister died and she had some benefits that helped through her well they had her hooked up and everything but that helped her helped us through it
[speaker001:] good good good a good thing that uh they she had those I think there's other uh well there's other benefits that uh kind of or look at I guess uh need a vacation once in a while most jobs do that
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] uh give you some time off and uh that's something that uh each company's a little different on that but most of them are pretty good on those uh those type of benefits I think
[speaker002:] um-hum just just with the benefits going up it's just there's not a whole lot you can do about it really
[speaker001:] no there isn't and another one I think is uh quite important of course is retirement system that they they have
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] and uh with social security and uh the way it is if that's all you got is social security by then
[speaker002:] you're not gonna make it very far
[speaker001:] right by the time I get up there uh in a few years and uh draw social security with the cost of living uh that benefit is just really not gonna help very much
[speaker002:] no I don't think that would uh the older the older you probably you would probably need more help
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] because you know a lot of elderly most of the elderly people don't have the money and the ones that do well they have insurance so
[speaker001:] no um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] it's it's just a I think it they need to extend them because we're we're paying here a lot
[speaker001:] um-hum yes
[speaker002:] and I think the elderly needs it more than anything
[speaker001:] that's true and uh it seems like it goes up every year you have no control over the the cost to you and that just takes away your buying power also and uh the company of course I can see the company's side uh too because uh they have to pay uh an a proportion of whatever the the health cost is and it gets to the point where uh they're not uh making money and uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it uh I don't wanna see us to go socialized medicine like they are in England or places like that
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] but still uh I I hope that this plan that uh the President's come up with uh is gonna help all those or help some way bottom line though who's gonna pay for it
[speaker002:] really have they got it have they already signed that or that's not signed yet is it
[speaker001:] no no he he just uh proposed it and uh the republicans are saying hey it's a great plan the democrats say it's no good so
[speaker002:] well they