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...story goes that two chorus members of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera were returning to the green but sodden meadows of Sussex, England, after a brief break in London. One said, "I'm so sick of all this rain." Replied the other: "Yes, but it is privileged rain...
Battenfield told Extension School officialsthat she was taking sick days so they should notgive up her job, and officials assured her thatshe would not be replaced, according to herdeposition. But she was replaced anyway...
Battenfield soon became too sick to work, andMay 20, 1991, was her last...
...March 14 story, part-time attendantscharged that they are forced to work full-timeschedules without overtime pay. And full-timeemployees said they are afraid to take sick timewhen they are ill for fear of losing their jobs...
...maintain that costs can be held down without compelling all Americans to jump into the health pool. But premium leveling, the one component of health-care reform that enjoys almost universal support, cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Much like anatomy, all the pieces connect: the aging and the sick are connected to the young, who need employers to ease their new burden, who need the cooperation of other employers to spread the costs. Otherwise, the healthiest and the wealthiest will forgo insurance -- and America's health-care system could get even sicker...