The need for affordable health care coverage and the need for the state's cities and towns to balance their budgets have converged this year at the Capitol. Nancy Wyman, the state comptroller, plans to start a health insurance plan for the state's municipal workers and teachers. By taking advantage of a large number of people buying insurance together, Wyman estimates that a town with 1,000 employees could save $720,000 a year.
WASHINGTON | President Bush loses his power to day to seal "fast track" trade agreements without intervention from Congress as Democrats blame recent deals for sending U.S. jobs abroad. Since 1975, only one other president, Bill Clinton, has been stripped of that trade promotion authority, designed to speed the reduction of trade barriers and open new markets with other countries. Bush won't get it back again.
Grant-in-aid athletes in revenue-generating sports at Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association institutions are not student-athletes as the NCAA asserts, but are, instead, employees under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). To be an employee under the Act, these athletes must meet both the common law test and a statutory test applicable to university students. In applying the common law test to athletes, their daily lives are described through interviews with current and former Division I grant-in-aid athletes. These interviews demonstrate that their daily burdens and obligations not only meet the legal standard of employee, but far exceed the burdens and obligations of most university employees. As employees under the NLRA, these athletes are entitled to form, join or a...
..., these employee-athletes would earn a negotiated wage, like other employees.37 They would also be e... year,180 and coaches gained unparalleled power over the athlete.181 This transfer of scholarshipr...
The city's school superintendent should never again be given the power to negotiate buyouts that differ from terms spelled out in employment contracts, Buffalo's interim comptroller said Thursday. City auditors commented on a controversy involving the Board of Education's decision to pay a full year's salary of $168,000 plus benefits to its departing deputy school superintendent. Folasade Oladele's contract entitled her to three months' pay, or $42,000, if the board bought out her pact prior to its June 2012 expiration.
When the Obama administration was working on health-care reform, the drug companies reached a deal with the White House to fend off legislation granting government the power to negotiate drug prices. The drug companies promised that when seniors reached the "doughnut hole" - the point after which seniors must pay full price for drugs otherwise paid for by Medicare - the drug companies would offer a 50 percent discount on name-brand drugs. But there is a loophole to which seniors should be alert: 50 percent of what? The drug companies are already increasing retail prices. They could continue to do so to the point that a discount of 50 percent off the new price would be equal to 100 percent of the old price. Remember, the lesson of history is that private enterprise can do great things, b...
philk@wvgazette.com A weakened version of a bill to spell out what power the state Pharmaceutical Advocate will have in negotiations with drug manufacturers for state prescription drug discounts is in passage stage in the Senate this morning, setting up a House-Senate conference committee to try to reach an agreement on the bill (HB2852).
The debate over Medicare cuts shows a real lack of common sense from both Republicans and Democrats. A simple change in the law that prohibits Medicare from using its massive buying power to negotiate better prices for all types of medical expenditures - especially drug prices - could save billions of dollars every year. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
The next time you're at a grocery store, let the cashier ring up the sale. Then try to bargain for a better deal. Sounds ridiculous, doesn't it? After all, just a handful of retailers sell more than half of all the groceries in the United States, and an individual shopper has very little power to negotiate. That same imbalance of power is a real problem for farmers and ranchers in the United States. Farmers are proud of their independence, but having millions of growers bartering separately puts them at a real disadvantage in the marketplace. That is why they banded together to form farmer-owned cooperatives.
[...] the complaint is notable in that it illustrates the newfound powerlessness that municipalities face in the wake of House Bill 1279, which stripped them of the power to negotiate cable franchise agreements with video providers and to enforce customer service and other provisions. According to city records, the amount of revenue flowing to the city from video providers has remained steady since 2006, if even up slightly from the $7.26 million in 2006.
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