Very … somber … indeed …(cue Barber’s Adagio)
In a stare-down with House Speaker Sal DiMasi, the business community was the first to blink. Sadly their members could be paying the price for decades.
You call a measly 295 bucks a year “blinking”? Compared to the cost of actually doing the right thing and offering comprehensive insurance — you know, the kind that actually keeps people healthy?
For an employee that works, say, 1,900 hours a year, $295 comes out to a raise of 15.5¢ per hour. Cryin’ yet?
And the Herald conveniently forgets that someone was paying for these folks’ medical care. Who was that? Oh yeah — us. Where’s our sad little violin section? And how about the Friendly’s employees: Who’s playing the Symphony of the Uninsured for them?
Ah, priorities. I hope the Herald, Mitt, and Travaglini have as much energy for keeping health care costs from rising another 10-15% this year as they’ve had for keeping uninsuring employers from paying 15.5¢ per hour.
$0.155 is 15.5 cents.
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Writing “$0.155 cents” becomes unclear, because the two units (dollars, cents) conflict with each other. It’s like 12′ inches or 3.1415° radians. At first I honestly thought you meant less than one cent per hour ($0.00155 == .155¢).
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Write either $0.155 or 15.5 cents or 15.5¢.
Lazy, lazy blogger. I fixed it.