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Why do the rich get even richer, while regular working Americans can't even hold onto their basic health care benefits? The head of United Technologies raked in $13.4 million in total compensation and cashed out $83.6 million in stock options -- and he wants to ax health care for the 3,600 Teamsters on strike at Sikorsky. The race to the bottom for the middle class must stop now.

Why do the rich get even richer, while regular working Americans can't even hold onto their basic health care benefits. The head of United Technologies raked in $13.4 million in total compensation and cashed out $83.6 million in stock options and he wants to ax health care for the 3,600 teamsters on strike at Sikorsky.

Why do the rich get richer while regular working Americans can't even hold on to their basic health care benefits? The race to the bottom for the middle class must stop now. A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance.

Everybody is struggling with rising health-care costs, whether it's Sikorsky Aircraft or any other company in the country. We're simply not immune to that. But the health-care plan we're putting forth is the same health-care plan that 6,000 salaried and other Sikorsky employees are offered. It's a good health-care plan.

These guys just made a deal with one of the large online providers of health care over the Internet. The company does over $600 million in revenue and generates almost $80 million of cash flow a year. So, it's really becoming a major player in the health-care information services sector.

Recent mergers have given the industry a strangle hold over the health insurance market. With fewer pressures for efficiency and no government oversight of rates, insurers have been given free rein to spend more of our health care dollars on overhead, profit, and administration. The last decade of HMO mergers has taught us that when fewer HMOs dominate the health care market, quality goes down, premiums go up, and patients get short changed. Already, 45 million Americans are uninsured because they cannot afford to pay the insurers' ransom.

The bottom line is that, when you start taking a look at the accounting differences, it comes down to we're about $117 million higher than Consumers and about two-thirds of that can be attributable to health care and pension benefits.

We had $1 million in natural gas costs in 2005. This year this cost will be between $1.3 million and $1.4 million. Our health care costs in 2000 were $3.3 million; today, they are $5.8 million.

Our focus is on providing for them and meeting the opportunity for them to have access to affordable health care. That is exactly what they need. Our goal is to be the champion for 1.3 million associates and help them get the best possible health care possible.

Just as the president and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to slash Medicaid, today's report demonstrates that fewer Americans can rely on employer-based health care coverage and Medicaid is growing in importance for millions. ... We should be working to address the rising cost of health care, not cutting the bottom out from under our families,

Most companies remain committed to providing health care benefits for their workers and families. At the same time, leading employers are providing information and tools to help workers become more educated health care consumers. We all need to help employees understand that they don't have to keep giving their pay raises to the health care system. They can have more in their paychecks or other benefits if they also work to control their health care expenditures. Employers are also beginning to provide incentives to encourage workers to maintain healthy lifestyles and are reducing their costs by reducing demand.

I'm very concerned about that. We are out here fighting for health care and the middle class. The middle class is the backbone of society and it needs to stop somewhere.

This is especially egregious because at the very time when these HMO executives are getting these huge paydays - whether or not the merger does well for shareholders or consumers - 6 million Californians have no health insurance and millions of working families are just struggling to pay their health care premiums,

We'd like to see more benefits created with these jobs. We've got three million workers in the state without health care.

[Earlier this week, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced legislation that would force Grace, now under bankruptcy court protection, to create a $250 million health care trust fund for Libby's asbestos victims before it emerges from bankruptcy proceedings.] We've always feared Grace would bail out of their health care responsibilities, ... That's why we must continue to hold Grace's feet to the fire in every way we can.

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