Editorial: Too many errors in welfare trial

Source: Indianapolis Star (IN), September 29, 2009 


 

 The Daniels administration has approximately two weeks before telling the world whether a welfare privatization experiment that's been plagued with problems for nearly three years is fixable.

 

It will be remarkable, to say the least, if the IBM-led team that was given a $1.34 billion contract to manage assistance to the needy has cleaned up an act so ragged that the state was compelled to call a timeout on the takeover and give an ultimatum -- compliance by fall or cancellation of the 10-year deal.

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Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente

by Thomas A. Kochan; Adrienne E. Eaton; Robert B. McKersie; Paul S. Adler



Kaiser Permanente is the largest

managed care organization in the

country. It also happens to have

the largest and most complex

labor-management partnership

ever created in the United States.

This book tells the story of that

partnership-how it started, how it

grew, who made it happen, and

the lessons to be learned from its

successes and complications.

With twenty-seven unions and

an organization as complex as

8.6-million-member Kaiser

Permanente, establishing the

partnership was not a simple

task and maintaining it has

proven to be extraordinarily

challenging.





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