Starbucks' Health Care Spending

Here is an amazing fact that goes a long way toward explaining why big business is so eager for some sort of health-care overhaul: Starbucks says "it spends nearly as much on health insurance for its workers as it does on coffee," the New York Times reports. Like the claim that General Motors spent more, per car made, on health benefits than on steel, that is the sort of information that has a way of resonating,