Posted on 09/13/2014 11:09:39 AM PDT by george76
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday dropped another financial bombshell on Chicago’s 25,000 retired city workers and their dependents: their monthly health insurance premiums will be going up by a whopping 40 percent — in spite of a pending lawsuit and a precedent-setting Illinois Supreme Court ruling.
Last year, Emanuel announced plans to save $108.7 million a year by phasing out the city’s 55 percent subsidy for retiree health care and forcing retirees to make the switch to Obamacare.
For the city, the Year One savings was $25 million. For retirees, that translated into an increase in monthly health insurance premiums in the 20 percent and 30 percent-range.
On Friday, city retirees and their dependents got hit again — only this time, even harder. The city notified them of a 30-percent to 40-percent increase that will cost most of the retirees between another $300 to $400 a month.
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Enoy your rat buttRahming, rats!
Elections have consequences.
The bigger question is why are people who have quit their jobs still receiving insurance benefits from their former employer?
What? How could this happen? His best friend in the White House told everyone that insurance rates would go down by more than $2000 per family under ObozoCare. Someone needs to tell Rahm that his buddy promised lower rates. Clearly, all he needs to do is contact Obozo in the White House and get this lie about higher insurance rates cleared up. After all, Obozo wouldn’t lie to us just for his own personal gain...would he?
Gosh, doesn’t it suck when you run out of other people’s money?
Can't wait to get out of this Hellhole of a city.
Good. It’s about time people from the public sector share in some of the pain government has imposed on the rest of us.
If they’re eligible for Medicare Part A that’s free. FWIW, in the MA town I retired from they had to keep covering those older retirees who aren’t eligible for Medicare (retired before they had 40 quarters).
Democrats always stick up for the little guy. Oh, wait, that is stick it to the little guy.
This, I like.
Slowly the acidic blob that is Obamacare is oozing its way into the public sector. A couple of public employees complained to me recently about higher copays and other costs for their state health insurance. I told them that was just a taste of what I have to deal with, their coverage is still leaps and bounds better than mine and this is all the fault of fiscal mismanagement and that nightmare Obamacare. I think a light dawned.
Fixed it.
How many of those effected voted for DIMs/LIBs? To those that did: Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Indeed, yet the mentally deficient moonbats will still blame Bush because the media tells them to.
Hmmmm ..?? I guess that’s one way of using “death panels” for the old folks. They’re too expensive to take care of anyway .. get it ..??????
I would think for $1000 a month, you could get a pretty good plan on the Obamacare exchanges. These must be really gold-plated plans, if they now cost $1400 a month and are still subsidized.
contracts
employers offer them, employees sign them and life goes on
until employers change them after the fact
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