KU>  KU> It has always been thus in real life. It is just that the bean 
KU>  KU> counters are starting to count the beans of the middle class and 
KU>  KU> is what  is really starting to tick people off.
    No.
    It is that the Fortune 500 is looking for every way to screw their 
workers, and part of that is cutting the employer's share of health coverage 
at big companies.  Look at the U.S. auto industry: the most acrimonious 
bargaining issue recently is over who pays for health insurance and how good 
the benefits are, not the pay.
    The Fortune 500 sees in "health reform" the possibility to keep their 
workers happy and cut the companies' costs by sticking small business and 
self-employed people who typically are more interested in higher income than 
in higher benefits with more of the national health care budget.
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