That Didn’t Last Long

G-Rod has already backtracked on the Health Alliance HMO being dropped. Capitol Fax reports on it.

Best bit:

Political Rule Number One: Be very wary of screwing around with retiree health insurance. Those retirees have nothing better to do than stew all day about how the governor is being an unreasonable jerk. And they’ve got plenty of time on their hands to call and write their legislators, CMS, the governor’s office and their friends and family. It’s an unforgiving bunch, to say the least. And they’re all registered to vote.

What Miller leaves out is that it also affected faculty at many institutions, who may work hard, but can push aside much of that work at any given time. And they are quite used to political battles over the smallest of things.