Carroll Lachnit gets right to the point in “Living in La-La Land.”
“The grocery workers have an enviable package–calling it a Cadillac is an understatement. They pay no premiums for family health insurance, and that puts them in a tiny minority: only 4 percent of large employers pick up the whole tab, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s 2003 study of employer health benefits. The average American worker pays $2,412 in family-coverage premiums–about 27 percent of the total cost.”
“The supermarkets proposed that union employees pay $260 a year for single employee-only coverage, and $780 a year for family. The union bewails the fact that this would result in a pay reduction for current employees and cites other horrors: co-payments, deductibles and caps on prescriptions and surgeries.”
“Welcome to the world the rest of us live in. As much as I would like my employer to pay for all of my family’s health care, I know that’s not realistic. Not when health-care costs have climbed nearly 14 percent in 2003, and are on track to increase 12.6 percent next year” (emphasis added).
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