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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by woan on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:25PM (#1773459)
I don't know any other companies this generous even after the change in two years.
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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by ahi on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:41PM (#1773524)
Microsoft is generous with their employees, but stingy when it comes to defining "employee".
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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by bhiggins on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:47PM (#1773555)
Microsoft is also great at dodging taxes.
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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by erreon on Saturday October 09, 2010 @01:31AM (#1774421)
Almost a year ago IBM announced they were going to cover Health Care for employees at 100%.

Press Release source: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28728.wss

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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by woan on Saturday October 09, 2010 @01:59PM (#1775436)
Interesting, I was there when they went from full coverage to the co-pay PPO/HMO model, as well as when they went from pensions to 401K retirement.

Some of this seems to be in line with healthcare reform, i.e. no-copay preventative care.

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Re:Health care: Microsoft ending 100% coverage for employees by salemh on Friday October 08, 2010 @05:42PM (#1773534)
Goldman Sachs if not in parity, very close.
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