I hate to have to point out common sense but obviously you don’t understand how insurance works. The goal of the insurance companies is to mitigate risk cause that way they will always be profitable. The larger the employee base the lower the risk. Insuring one person even if healthy is a risk cause they could get into a car accident and cost the insurance company a ton once the deductible is met. However if that same person was in a pool of 5000 employees now that isolated incident no longer is as much of a risk since they are getting premiums paid by 4999 other individuals. Not to mention that the more people that an insurance company covers the more leverage they have with hospitals and doctors over rates. So yeah my comment is true.

I disagree, I used to be in charge of employee benefits, health insurance companies will compete for big groups, the more employee’s you have the better leverage you get… Big groups have built in diversity, the insurance companies offer you a price per head, they do not individually underwrite and investigate people’s health histories anymore…

“For a large company like those on the strip the cost of benefits is minimal. ”

No. That’s false. Benefit costs don’t decrease simply because the company is large.

That’s certainly true, if they can get enough of the un-educated to play those lousy odds. Of course, many don’t know or care about their odds. They are only there for the ambience, drink service, club points, etc.

True, but no banter, no stories, no jokes, no character, no charm, no old-timey jargon, no humanity.

Agreed Michael, I typically go twice a year minimum. I went in March and it was by far the worst trip there I have ever had in about 25-30 visits. I am supposed to go again in October or November but with all the stuff I am hearing I am seriously debating on tossing that idea. Like you if this trash continues I hope they fail miserably. If that means casinos closing in masses then so be it, there will be other more customer friendly locations there to take their place. The ONLY reason they can get away with this right now is because of the large flux of people that haven’t been able to travel for a year and a half. That crowd will begin to fade and they will start to see the same decline in visitors they saw pre-pandemic, except with an even sharper drop due to the terrible customer service and bone headed corporate decisions to axe everything that made Vegas better than the ever growing number of local casinos we can visit.

The better the rules, the lower the profit margin, fewer reasons to have the games.

Nevada is the most corporate friendly state west of Delaware, currently there are way more jobs available than there are applicants. If laws and rules were preventing companies from hiring human beings, the local housing market would be plummeting instead of rocketing to the sky… A political philosophy and $3 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks…

I agree, it’s naked corporate greed, and it is eroding my desires to visit, if they lose people like me who are cultishly devoted to it, it will trickle down to more normal folks… I already have resigned myself to possibly never playing craps again, my goal in craps is to backload money behind the pass line, the giant front line bet minimums are designed to manipulate players like me, challenge us to break our own rules, I am not addicted to gambling, so their disgusting ploy to usuriously profit off of me only deepens my resolve. Video poker is in bad shape, live poker is disappearing, and the food prices are insane… I will come, I love Las Vegas, I love Hugo’s Cellar, but I will lose the larger than life obviously wrong value judgement I attribute to it. If the local card clubs start this crap, then I will have nothing, so I certainly hope this putrid trend fails. I do not usually root for failure, but this is an exception. I have instructed my family to shoot me if they ever find me sitting in front of a Snow White themed slot machine…