Comments on: Papa John’s CEO Latest News: ‘In a Bunch of Trouble’ for Obamacare Job Cuts

By: m.l.gates

m.l.gates — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:42:35 +0000

i would like to know if you can refer your readers to a website that lists employers who are doing right by their employees i.e. providing healthcare, not being punitive as a result of the election etc and ones that are not doing the right thing. i would really like to know so that i can vote with my wallet and my feet!

By: Suzie

Suzie — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:00:33 +0000

I totally agree with Patricia Kayden. I will NOT patronize Papa John’s pizza. I tasted that cardboard muck years before and vowed to never return. I haven’t. Politics aside, the pizza is subpar.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:10:20 +0000

Mary,
If I may, where do you get your healthcare coverage from? If it is from your employer then everyone paying for their services is paying for your coverage. The bottom line is everyone should have medical coverage. We can either do it through the employer or directly by the individual, either way it needs to be paid for and we’re all going to pay either through the cost of products and services or through taxes. Note: We can actually drive down the cost of doing business and the overall healthcare spend with a healthy workforce! Do you have any alternative solutions to ensuring healthcare for 40m people currently without it? I certainly didn’t hear any from Shnatter.

By: Patricia Kayden

Patricia Kayden — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:39:11 +0000

No problem. Will not spend a penny at Papa John’s. He can keep his rightwing politics, and I’ll spend my pizza money elsewhere.

By: Beliz

Beliz — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:27:12 +0000

@MaryB
I want to congratulate you that you have such awesome healthcare already, that you don’t need ACA like 40 other million of your fellow citizens do. (I just hope you have no per-existing conditions.) And now some information for you, in the 80′s, about 79% of the working people had work-sponsored healthcare (and businesses weren’t any less profitable because of it), and yes, mainly because of unions or even groups of employees standing together. (oh, and you can thank unions for a 40 hour work week, safety regulations in the workplace, the concept of sick/vacation days, and more) I don’t call any of that “gimme, gimme” because people work hard and do deserve it – maybe *you* don’t think you deserve it and to me, that is very sad. You also mentioned the dangers of socialism -does that mean you want the VA to go away? that is the best example of socialized medicine but I for one, think our veterans deserve healthcare and more. How do you feel about the care about our veterans? I demand businesses to take care of their people – if they don’t take care of their people, how do I know they will treat me, a customer, just as well?
One last thing, I am sorry you feel so terrified about the future of our country and you think it will be terrible, maybe you don’t read or watch the news, but if you did, you would know that good things are happening, slowly, but they are getting better. Maybe you just need to be more positive in your life rather than being so negative. I believe in my country and I believe in our president and I believe in my fellow citizens, that the US will be great, and always will be great.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:42:33 +0000

Mary,seriously? Your anwer to every problem facing business is to cut wages? Americans working at minimum wage jobs is the driving factor behind the “socialist” movement. Hostess is a classic example of mis-mangagement and profit-taking while ignoring the market, product innovation and supply chain investments. Will you be happy when there are only two classes of people – those who manage and those who make $8.00 an hour? Who will American companies sell to if American workers can’t afford the products?

By: Ruby

Ruby — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:12:07 +0000

Thank you to this post and all that replied. It is so refreshing to see people who are willing to spend a bit more money if it means that everyone can have healthcare. It is a crisis in this country and since there are no claws to control the insurance companies who are only concerned with profits, we all have to do our part tofix the problem ourselves. It begins with Obamacare. Is it perfect? NO, but it’s a freakin start. At least he had the courage to step up and start something instead of just talking about it.

By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:51:19 +0000

You’re giving Schnatter too much credit, Mark. He knows better, and is just using Obamacare as an excuse to raise his prices, while reducing benefits to his employees, in order to: generate even more profits, while venting his sour-grapes reaction to the election. This is America, and you are free to express your opinions and spend your money any way you want, but continuing to patronize Papa John’s is just endorsing Schnatter’s actions.

By: MaryB

MaryB — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:36:31 +0000

Is everybody crazy? Why are you blaming a business for doing exactly what businesses have to do to survive the ObamaCare stupidty, the unions, another wave moving us into deep socialism. Is everybody blind? This is what happens in an ecomomy where you demand business to pay more (Hostess for example) when they are being bombarded with price increases. It is a basic business principle. Has this country become so blind and hearing ‘gimme gimme’ in their ears? Time to wake up and find out what is facing this country. 14 cents is cheap compared to what is coming our way.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:19:42 +0000

And think about the additional benefits of getting more people access: 1) Jobs, jobs,jobs. If we get access for the 40m people without coverage someone has to deliver the healthcare. We don’t have enough resources to so we create more jobs to deliver the care. Well you can’t just hire folks off the street to do that so we have to educate them (more jobs). Who’s available ?… all the people without the opportunity to afford the education, I’m all for using my tax dollars for this. 2) There’s more than enough research to support the notion that the more people with access to healthcare the more likely they are to significantly improve their health from improved diet and exercise, early diagnosis and intervention, adherence to medications and are less likely to have long term, expensive health problems. For 14 cents a pie, I’m in. I’d much rather pay as I go than give it up to the government to disperse. I want Papa John to thrive but for the right reasons.