Endangered Benefits: ; Job Health-Care Minimum Must Be Set

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The recent contract negotiated between General Motors and the United Auto Workers swapped job security for health-care insecurity, a significant development.

Every presidential contender has been forced to come up with a health-care plan that goes beyond limited reform. The reason is basic. As noted in The New York Times, "soaring costs, growing ranks of uninsured, and a steady erosion of corporate health benefits add up to a giant drag on the nation's future prosperity."

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Endangered Benefits: ; Job Health-Care Minimum Must Be Set

Working people are pressed hard to survive. Decent jobs are disappearing, home mortgage payments are rising, food prices are jumping and the number of Americans without health care has escalated significantly from 40 million to 47 million in just five years. Perhaps not surprisingly, the U.S. Centers for Disea...

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