My Employer pays my monthly Health Care Premiums, and those of my Wife IF she is not employed or her employer does not provide a Health Insurance plan. Her employer currently does not. If she does have a plan available (and now it's mandated that her employer must), then I pay $175 a month if I want her to stay on my company's plan. So either way we have to now pay a monthly premium for her, where I didn’t before.
Obama has taken a minimum of $175 a month out of my pocket, and that's assuming premiums stay the same, which they won't.
YOu got off light.
Our CEO has already let all of us know that as soon as this kicks in the company is cancelling our insurance completely.
Right now the company I work for provides full family coverage for every employee for free. This is at a cost of $1900 per employee per month. Our owner does this because he wants to, even though the bean counters and auditers tell him it is assinine.
This is not a standard coverage either, it is the top package BC/BS offers. There is no deductible, and all services are covered 100%. All we are responsible for is a $10 co-pay.
Obviously this is what Obama and his band of Thugs refer to as a “Cadillac” policy, and yes I realize how truly blessed I am to work for this firm.
Now, here is the bottom line, our Ceo pointed out that the new taxes and fees imposed by ObamaCare will render our company as unprofitable — so he has a clear choice:
1. Continue to provide insurance at a cost of 1900 a month per employee and go bankrupt
2. Pay a fine of up to $3000 PER YEAR and cancel all health coverage.
You reminded me of an astonishing item I read a couple of months back. I think it was in the San Jose Mercury News...it was about the unaffordable health-care-for-life provided to city employees.
But here’s the part that gobsmacked me: Spouse qualify for dependent coverage under the city plan. BUT-—if an employee’s spouse has insurance at her job or elsewhere-— the city employee IS PAID the amount the city would have paid for his spouse...every year! I think it was estimated to be around $16k per year.
Outrageous. I wonder if that little benny will be affected by the health care bill. (Probably not, they’re union and I don’t think union plans are not included in the bill)