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...Peter Hiam, former commissioner of insurance ofMassachusetts and now a professor at the BostonUniversity School of Public Health, said heopposes Clinton's employment-based system...
...There is a reverential belief that during hard times, you can turn a company around, resuscitate its profitability and raise shareholder value by laying off workers," says Alexander Hiam, author of Closing the Quality Gap. "But that's a huge myth." For both individual companies and the economy as a whole, a true recovery may require dispelling that myth and focusing once again on real ways to increase performance and creativity...
...their payments should be higher and some of their benefits lower. But many feminists argue that such pricing constitutes discrimination. Last week Massachusetts became the latest state to promote unisex rates for all types of insurance (Montana was the first state to do so). Massachusetts Insurance Commissioner Peter Hiam ordered that firms based in his state even up their rates by July 1988. Says Hiam: "Massachusetts does not see any social value in making people pay different rates on the basis of gender...
Many executives oppose the commissioner's involvement in rate setting. But John Hancock Lobbyist Barbara Burgess supports Hiam. Says she: "Current rates discriminate against the individual...
...still has not set rates--due last July--for this year, although a spokesman for Insurance Commissioner Peter Hiam said he expects the commissioner to announce them by Friday...