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UPS DRopping Spouses From Insurance Coverage, Cites "Obamacare"
UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from health insurance, cites Obamacare
United Parcel Service plans to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The Atlanta-based shipping and logistics company points to the federal Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a big reason for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News. According to Kaiser, UPS told white-collar workers two months ago that 15,000 working spouses eligible for coverage by their own employers would be excluded from the UPS plan in 2014. http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonvi...om-health.html http://www.bizjournals.com/profiles/...h_news/3327357 |
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I feel so bad for all those Unionistas that voted for him.
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It's funny. Within the discussions about legalizing gay marriage on here a few issues will pop up. Mostly about gay couples being given the same preferential treatments that heterosexual married couples receive. I wonder what will happen first, gay couples being given those benefits or those benefits being eliminated for all?
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This is the start of a trend we will see over the next few years. One of the big cost control measures in Obamacare is that it partially rolls back the incentives for businesses to give unionized employees so-called "cadillac" or "gold plated" health care plans.
Unions complained a lot about this in 2009 but ultimately supported Obamacare out of a sense of loyalty and hope they could change things later. Expect to see a lot of complaints and lobbying against this part of Obamacare by big unions in the coming year. Congress shouldn't give in, though, its a good provision for controlling costs and it was also part of Paul Ryan's health care proposal.
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I know of a hospital company (own 28 hospitals coast to coast, most in CA), that dropped spouses from the plan starting in 06. You can keep them on the plan at the cost of $200 per month.
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But generally Obamacare does encourage this. Also, UPS is one of the largest employers in the country and dropping a subset of employee spouses shouldn't impact their ability to share risk efficiently. There are just rapidly diminishing returns here.
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Ha! Ha! C'ya folks!
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What can Brown do for you?
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Republicans believe that corporations should be able to cut any and all costs to show additional profit to stock holders. They don't give a **** about you either. We're ****ed. Blame left, blame right, and when you're ready to fix it, blame your ****ing self. We're the ones that vote these ****ing clown puppets into office in the first place. Same as it ever was. Same as, it, ever, was...
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