Coke Cancels Employee Health Care

Coke canceled the health care plan of 500 employees after a protracted contract dispute.   Five employees have filed a class action lawsuit.

"My wife had a kidney transplant two years ago. When Coke cancelled our health care, they cut off her anti-rejection medication. This shows me that Coke doesn't care about its employees," said Bill Mauhl, a 34-year Coke employee, who works in the company's production facility in Bellevue.



"In my almost twenty years of representing workers and unions in labor disputes, it's hard to think of any past instance where I have seen an employer retaliate against its striking workers in a manner as egregious as what the Coca-Cola Bottling Company has done here," said Dmitri Iglitzin, an attorney at Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, an employment law firm based in Seattle.


"Cutting off the medical benefits to more than 500 workers, knowing that many of them rely on those benefits on a day-to-day basis and will be irreparably harmed if they lose those benefits is a brutal, full-scale attack by Coke on its own workers," Iglitzin said.

Well get used to it.  Soon, all employers are going to dump their insurance plans; forcing all of us on Obamacare.  And if you think that you are being violated now, wait until you're brought before Dr. Berwick's death panel.

Source:  http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/08/28/employees-file-suit-coke-cancelling-health-care/?cmpid=prn_baynote_fallback_Employees_File_Suit_Against_Coke_for_Cancelling_Their_Health_Care

Democrats Have "Final Solution" for Entitlement Programs

Social Security was created in 1935. The age of eligibility was at the time 65. Life expectancy for males was 58.1 and for females it was 61.6 years of age. The federal government from the very beginning was banking on its citizens to die off before they could collect. To their chagrin, people are living longer than what was anticipated. Now, the fund is running red and the geniuses on Capitol Hill are trying to figure out a way to stop the bleeding.

Today the Social Security benefit retirement age is 66 for people born from 1943 to 1954; those born in 1960 or later will get full benefits at age 67. Now, our elected representatives want to raise the retirement age to 70 in an effort to keep the New Deal program viable. They are basically hoping that you will not live long enough to collect.

The baby boomer generation is the most selfish generation that this nation has had the misfortune to give birth too. It is they who have implemented disastrous government programs and spending that will burden future generations to come.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) stated the following:

“We’re lying to ourselves and our children if we say we can maintain our current levels of entitlement spending, defense spending and taxation without bankrupting our country,” he said.

“We could and should consider a higher retirement age or one pegged to life span, more progressive Social Security and Medicare benefits, and a stronger safety net for the Americans who need it the most.”

Well, what do you know, a moment of lucidity from one of the chief spendthrifts on Capitol Hill.

Don’t worry; the Democrats are engineering a more “progressive” system to deal with the aged and infirm. The appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick, who believes in rationing health care, has a “final solution” for those pesky seniors who refuse to die. Dr. Death will ensure the survival of the entitlement programs; even if you don’t.

Medicare and Medicaid to be Headed by Communist

Obama has an affinity for communist. Donald Berwick is the nominee who is slated to head the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare. In this video he lauds the British health care system, which is a complete failure; and he advocates the redistribution of wealth as a necessity for quality health care.

Elections really do have consequences.