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Let's Make a Deal : /p>

I'm a middle-aged woman and I seem to be getting more liberal the older I get. In other words, I don't generally agree with the Spectator. While I don't disagree with the facts you've laid out in your "Let's Make a Deal" article, I think you missed something.

I went to work for ULLICO in 1993 because I believed in the mission of affordable health care for America's working people. ULLICO was never a large company, and the Global Crossing fiasco resulted not only in the results you described but also in outsourcing and layoffs at the company, itself.

I was laid off in 2004 after ULLICO outsourced its' claims payment and administration. Granted, the outsourcing contract went to another union company. But my point is that you missed the stakeholdership (is that a word? ;-) of those of us who lost our jobs as a result of the shenanigans.

p>Granted, we didn't lose as much as our investors. But most of us -- if not all -- believed in the mission and found ourselves disillusioned, having to hunt for jobs after long tenure with ULLICO. My 11 years was br> pretty junior and the job hunting world had changed during my employment there. /p>

I finally found a position with another company in whose mission I believe and I now fully support a single-payer health care system for the United States.

p>The bottom line is that betraying the trust investors, regulators -- and employees -- have in a corporate entity has repercussions for everyone. br> -- Patricia M. Malarkey /p>

It is easy to understand why this isn't news. No, not because Democrats get most of their money from union thugs and it would reflect badly on the drive-by's favorite candidates.

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