Merry Christmas to the rich you get a tax cut. Pa citizens just found 356 more unemployed.

[redirish28]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/christmas-layoffs-express-scripts_n_797096.html

After working at Express Scripts Inc., a pharmacy benefits management firm in Bensalem, Penn., for the past 16 years, 62-year-old Marie Weiss clocked in for the last time this morning.

"Merry Christmas to us," said Weiss, one of 365 workers who lost their jobs when Express Scripts, a third-party administrator of prescription-drug programs, decided to shut down one of its facilities. "I didn't expect this present, but it is what it is."

What upset Weiss the most, she said, was that she was one of the company's first hires at its original plant. In her 16 years there, she said, she helped to build Express Scripts into what it is now, and yet the company never offered her or her longtime colleagues the opportunity to transfer to the new location it's building when they announced the mass layoffs eight months ago.

[Divernan]

1. Express Scripts just lost their contract to service state employees

Capital Blue Cross just switched prescription drug coverage, as of Jan. 1, 2011, to CVS Caremark.

[redirish28]

2. Gotta love those big insurance companies.

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Statistical]

4. Express script isn't really an insurance company any more than

a doctor's practice or local pharmacy is an insurance company.

[redirish28]

5. No but BLUE CROSS is and they switch from Express Script TO CVS

and they are probably getting a kick back from CVS by switching to them.

[midnight]

3. I wish I knew how to use the sarcasm button, because then

I could of just posted "Suck it up Weiss" without having to explain my sarcasm.... Their is bipartisan support that the middle class "suck it up" so this next transfer of wealth goes off without a hitch....

[redirish28]

6. It is in the Smiles lookup table. just above the subject line when you

respond to a post.