Working Life

   I mean, this is just pathetic. We’ve all heard about people getting married so that one spouse can get covered by the other spouse’s health care plan, and that’s what most of this story recounts. But, the new twist: Other couples, like Michelle and Marion Moulton, are forced to consider divorce so that an […]

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   On Friday, I observed that the Democrats were caving in too early on the question of what health care plan is the best plan to move to. It is obviously single-payer–no contest. Economically and morally. The leeches of the private insurance industry will always undercut any plan that keeps a role for for-profit health […]

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   Though I mentioned this yesterday in the posting of the newest, latest version of the Democratic Party platform, this bears repeating: you can’t have the private insurance industry mucking around with health care. It is really painful to watch a kind of cognitive dissonance playing out here. Watch this, on page 22, in the […]

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An update from the battle for single-payer health care…yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the American College of Physicians (ACP) has endorsed a single-payer health system. The ACP is the second largest physician’s group in the country – the American Medical Association, which doesn’t support single-payer, is the largest.  Here’s a bit from the article: While […]

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An update from the battle for single-payer health care…yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the American College of Physicians (ACP) has endorsed a single-payer health system. The ACP is the second largest physician’s group in the country – the American Medical Association, which doesn’t support single-payer, is the largest.  Here’s a bit from the article: While […]

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    At first blush, when I saw today’s front-page headline in The New York Times entitled "A Health Plan For Wal-Mart: Less Stinginess",  thought…hmmm…what’s up here? The upshot of the story: The company, according to data available for the first time, is offering better coverage to a greater number of workers. Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest […]

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    I don’t know that one should trust The Wall Street Journal’s take on the vibe inside any union. I’m not familiar with the reporter who wrote today’s story describing stronger dissent inside the UAW to the negotiated deal with Chrysler, as well as a relatively strong minority "no" vote on the GM deal. But, […]

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  Last week, I took part in a discussion on CNBC about the agreement reached between the UAW and Chrysler. The show’s producers wanted to focus on the question of whether the deal showed that the UAW’s power is in decline. The truth is that the Chrysler deal, and the previous pact reached between the […]

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Even for me, $58 billion sounds like a lot of money…that’s apparently the shortfall in the New Jersey state pension funds, which the state plans on confirming tomorrow. Mary Williams Walsh in The New York Times reports today that: It turns out that New Jersey will need about $58 billion, in today’s dollars, to provide […]

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I’ve written about this before but it bears repeating–particularly when The New York Times and the rest of the MSM continue to let ideology, not economic facts, dictate policy coverage. Today’s Times article on the challenges facing UAW retirees gives us another opportunity see how, despite large public sentiment in support of single-payer, the MSM […]

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