Monday, May 02, 2005

Health Coverage Dispute Pits Older Retirees Against Younger. A recent federal court ruling forces employers who offer health insurance to early retirees to give comparable coverage to retirees who are 65 or older. By By MILT FREUDENHEIM. [NYT > Health] Interesting to read this in at the same time I'm reading about the intergenerational fallout that is coming between retirees and their children. We're still fighting about the benefit discrepancies with the group with our entitlement mindset.  Sigh. 3:15:31 PM    comment [] With Little Fanfare, a New Effort to Prosecute Employers That Flout Safety Laws. A partnership between OSHA, the E.P.A. and a select group of Justice Department prosecutors has been forged to prosecute the nation's worst workplace safety violators. By By DAVID BARSTOW and LOWELL BERGMAN. [NYT > Health] Reading this after reading the NYT book review of Thomas Friedman's new book makes me start to think that one of America's greatest assets during the next decade will be ability to "humanize" or as least avoid the worst kind of dehumanization that industrial and technological globalization will bring on the rest of the world.  Is it possible for us to export that experience?  Is it possible for us to fast forward through almost one hundred years of learning to be the collaborator and communicator, the counselor and storyteller to lead past the worst of the holes in the sidewalk? 3:08:48 PM    comment []

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