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...premium costs instead of undermining one another? Insurance companies are running the country's health-care system into the ground, forcing doctors and patients to bear the increasing burden of the insurance firms' poor money-management practices. The insurers are the ones that need regulation. DANA O'LEARY Springfield, Ore...
...force. In the old way of thinking, employees were an investment, like factories or land, says Robert Reich, former U.S. Labor Secretary and now a professor at Brandeis University. Adding workers was a major expense, and cutting them was a decision not taken lightly or often. Today, like copper ore or cotton bales or computer-memory chips, most employees are regarded as commodities to be stockpiled or shed as business warrants. Technology not only allows fewer people to do the jobs of many; it also allows their skills to be taught fairly quickly anywhere in the world. So experience...
Peggy Hunt learned to fly-fish on company time. The human-resources manager works at Orvis, a mail-order firm in Manchester, Vt., that offers employee classes on the outdoorsy lifestyle espoused in its catalogs. S.D. Deacon, a construction company based in Portland, Ore., gives new hires $100 to decorate their cubicles, "just to make it feel homey," says an administrator, "since we're here so much." In today's labor market, in which simply getting a paycheck can qualify as a morale booster, some firms are providing inexpensive stress reducers that have the added benefit of squeezing more work...
...effective military. Our young men and women made it work. We taxpayers paid for it. All Bush did was send the troops off on a questionable adventure. The war was hardly "his" triumph. If Bush wants to win in 2004, he needs to fix the economy. BOB FORSTER Nehalem, Ore...
Emblematic of this trend is Beaverton, Ore., credit union First Technology, whose motto is "Banking outside the box." First Tech's 116,000 members include thousands of young workers from firms such as Microsoft and Intel. On its website, members can do basic banking, apply for a mortgage or learn about insurance. "I probably visit the site every day," says member Erin Mulkins, 25, a manager at a mortgage broker who does all her banking at First Tech. "When I have a question about my account, I call, and I'm told immediately what's going on." Mulkins also earns...