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I don't think that putting people 23,24,25 onto parent's insurance raised premiums at a rate much faster than they were already, every year, going up. Having friends paying over $10K a year and

If BS was music, Obama would be a symphony conductor -- If you can read this, thank a Teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a Veteran ---- KenSP@... wrote:

A 24 year old probably wouldn't want to pay $7000 a year if he can simply pay a $700 fine. I'm not sure where you got the figure of $7000 from, though. Did you just make it up? In California, a

I think you have to realize there is the Euro crisis and then there is healthcare. Greece has had a long-term problem with tax-evasion and corruption. We are 50th on the list of longevity with our

I for one can't wait. Right now my individual premium for just me is over $1600/mo for a high-deductible PPO. California has posted the exchange for next year. Mine will be $679/month for a lower

Just wait until the ACA (Obamacare) goes into full effect starting next year. Employers are going to be bailing out of Health Care Plans in droves. Individual premiums and co-pays are going to start

Well the topic of computer languages is far off the subject of pensions... The computer language "C" was quickly adopted whereas the bloated PL/1 language was not. People stayed on COBOL instead.

The business case was IBM was making 32 million a year on mainframe licenses for APL2 which was popular with Wall Street and universities. So with just a handful of people, we put APL2 on other

The only part about At Will employment that is fair is that both the employee and the employer can terminate the relationship at any time for any reason. Beyond that, At Will employment offers no

I remember APL1 quite well, started by Ken Iverson. ?Unfortunately, as good as it was as a developers/designer language, it never made it outside of IBM. ?What was the business case for working on

The layoffs started in 1993, and have continued pretty much every year since then. At best, there have been perhaps 18 month gaps between layoffs. Some layoffs were larger than others, and IBM has

Although the ERISA law protects pension benefits, retirement medical benefits have no protection whatsoever. IBM spells out the rules for the FHA in the Plan Description, and what has happened to you

He was laid off in 2002, not in the 1990s. The bloated IBM you speak of is the current IBM! In the early-90s I was in APL2 development. We had a department of 12 and made 32 million dollars a year.

Has it ever occurred to you that you might have been a part of the "Bloated IBM, from the mid '80s on to the mid '90s. ?There must have been close to 100,000 employees doing non-productive work or

I knew about all the FHA stuff. I didn't know 15,000 people were terminated in 2002. I should have known as I had a neighbor who was affected. And not a surprise that Sam had just taken the helm and

============================= Others have written that IBM's new 401K practice of annual instead of semi-monthly match gives IBM a financial incentive to fire employees with at least part of the