machines. Doesn’t this smack of company-store tactics in a mining
town? Why not finance the purchase of the worker’s own machine, which
he or she might pay off in a year? Blue Cross official Tim
Blackwell—who has given his company some useful feedback based on his
wife’s experiences—defends the steep charge for the machines. He says
it’s actually an incentive. The more a cottage keyer works and earns,
the smaller will be the percentage of her income going to pay for the
terminal cost.