Dear Pappa Johns,
I just bought a pizza. No, it wasn't one of yours, but it could have been. No, you see today I heard that you are blasting away at Obamacare by claiming that it is going to cost you a whole 15 cents extra per pizza to cover the added cost of providing your employees with adequate health insurance. Wow!!! Fifteen whole cents!! That's a lot for you I take it, and you are going to have to pass that cost along to us consumers. How ever will we buy pizza again?
But I digress. I write to tell you that today I bought my pizza from someone else. Your rather juvenile response to Obamacare is what convinced me NOT to buy my pizza from you. I'm very certain that your employees need health insurance just like the rest of us, and yet, apparently you do not currently provide it to all your employees (hence the need for the whole 15 cents that you are going to charge anyone who buys your product under Obamacare).
As I see it, requiring you to provide health insurance for them is a good thing. As things are right now - before Obamacare is fully implemented - some of your employees are probably getting health care anyway without being able to pay for it. That means that when I go to the doctor or hospital, I am having to pay more because you aren't providing it as a part of their compensation for making me a pizza. So you see, I'm already paying that 15 whole cents that Obamacare is going to cost your customers in the future. And I'm paying it even if I don't buy any pizza from you.
My decision to not buy pizza at Pappa Johns was made much easier when I found out that you specifically do NOT provide health insurance for all your people. On the one hand I would love to punish your corporate owners and executives for your political association with the Repuglican Party (yes, I know that your founder John Schnatter is a big Mitt Romney supporter) but if that act also denied some of your employees some health care coverage, I'm not sure I could live with myself. But now that I know that you do not provide them all with health insurance (I bet you do provide it for your executives) I am much less reluctant to avoid your stores, and that is exactly what I did today.
One more thing: In the hope that you will do the right thing and start providing your hard working pizza preparers with health insurance I have enclosed the 15 cents that you apparently need in order to do that. Each and every time I buy a pizza from someone else I will send you the extra 15 cents. I will trust, that being the honest and reasonable people that you are, that you will actually use this money to provide decent health care coverage for your people.
Sincerely,
Nuketeacher