Labor & Economic News Blog


Thursday, November 30, 2006

Hale workers, sick cities

Hale workers, sick cities
MUNICIPAL UNIONS should raise a holiday toast to gullible Massachusetts taxpayers for their willingness to absorb disproportionate pain from increases in health insurance costs. Bostonians, for example, sit by passively while city workers, who pay just 10 percent of premium costs for their HMO coverage, gobble up nearly half of the annual increase in the city's operating budget.

 



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