Not fair -
Jan. 12th, 2004 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgRemember that grocery worker's strike?
Remember that it hasn't been settled yet?
Remember that the beginning of the year was last week?
What do you think happened to those worker's insurance enrollments?
They disappeared.
And most of them were Kaiser HMO policies.
Jim works for Kaiser.
They didn't lose a few members.
They lost 50,000 of them overnight.
They're sending people home early to cut overhead. Jim has been told to be prepared to have his hours reduced.
And begin working Saturdays to compensate.
There are no words.
Well, nothing I can repeat.
Lighting incense. At least things will smell good.
*grumps*
Remember that it hasn't been settled yet?
Remember that the beginning of the year was last week?
What do you think happened to those worker's insurance enrollments?
They disappeared.
And most of them were Kaiser HMO policies.
Jim works for Kaiser.
They didn't lose a few members.
They lost 50,000 of them overnight.
They're sending people home early to cut overhead. Jim has been told to be prepared to have his hours reduced.
And begin working Saturdays to compensate.
There are no words.
Well, nothing I can repeat.
Lighting incense. At least things will smell good.
*grumps*
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Date: 2004-01-12 09:06 pm (UTC)And there's just nothing to do about it. It would be this - or the contract they rejected. No difference.
*sigh* People don't stop getting sick, though. They'll just shuffle off to the local hospitals when they need care instead and maybe be able to pay for it - or the hospitals will have to absorb it.
It just keeps rolling downhill.