By Thomas H. Trimarco December 10, 2008 MY INITIAL encounter with the arrogance and intransigence of Big Three management dates back to 1971 when I was serving as assistant general counsel at the US Department of Transportation. The occasion was a high-level policy and planning meeting chaired by Secretary John Volpe and attended by the [...]
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10 Dec
First, do not tax benefits
GLOBE EDITORIAL December 8, 2008 AS CONGRESS goes to work on healthcare reform, it should make Hippocrates’s rule a guiding principle: First, do no harm. Taxing the health insurance benefit that many workers get from their employers would do harm, lots of it. It could undermine employer-based insurance, which still covers 60 percent of Americans. [...]
