Posted on 06/05/2014 8:07:40 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
They were among the biggest cheerleaders for Obamacare: Now they are learning, the hard way, that the predictions of the law’s naysayers are largely coming true. For example, Obamacare’s enthusiasts mostly dismissed the warnings of analysts who predicted skyrocketing health care costs once the law went into effect. Flash forward.
“Faculty leaders will push the Board of Trustees to add at least $1 million to the University’s budget to cover more employee health care costs after two years of skyrocketing out-of-pocket payments,” Mary Ellen McIntire reported in the GW Hatchet on May 12, 2014. “The Faculty Senate blasted administrators for cutting about 10 percent in funding for the University’s health care benefits over the last four years.”
“Meanwhile, health care costs for employees rose nearly 25 percent since 2012.” The GW Hatchet is the student newspaper at George Washington University.
Meanwhile, too, teachers’ unions may have lustily cheered Obamacare’s passage but school districts are now struggling to comply with its mandates.
Many of the thousand or so waivers that the Obama Administration granted various entities to delay implementation of the law went to school districts. Now that they’ve run out, these districts are in full panic mode.
Mark Benigni, superintendant of the Meriden Public Schools in central Connecticut testified before Congress last year on the law’s impact. “Are we supposed to lay off full-time teachers so that we can provide insurance coverage to part-time employees?” Benigni asked the U. S. House of Representatives Education & the Workforce Committee. “If I had to cut five reading teachers to pay for benefits for substitute teachers, I’m not sure that would be best for our students.”
“Benigni told ASBJ that he is sympathetic to the law’s intent of expanding health insurance coverage and improving the health of all Americans, particularly the poor,” Lawrence Hardy reported in the American School Board Journal. “But there is no denying the potential impact on his district.”
He just didn't want to pay for it himself.
They are so smart in their own minds and echo chambers, that they do see they are fools in reality.
Academicians are such dumbasses.
They need to extract their heads from their terminal orifices and take deep breaths.
Those who can.. DO.. those who can’t.. Teach.
Elections do have consequences - even for obamabots.
They don’t live in the real world, at least economically. After achieving a graduate degree, most stay in academia or go into government. In either instance, they’re dependent on someone else’s money which, in my experience at least, leads to a certain disdain for those who actually produce something.
He still “hearts” Obama though.
“Are we supposed to lay off full-time teachers so that we can provide insurance coverage to part-time employees?” “
Yes. That’s what you voted for. What do you think was going to happen?
Unfortunately, despite all their academic degrees and pretensions, this group never seems to relate cause to effect. I’m pretty sure they’ll blame George Bush, “obstructive” Congressional Republicans, “stingy” taxpayers and “Faux” News.
Their “solution,” as always, will be a push for higher taxes and full socialized medicine.
Well crap. Health care won’t mena much to them anyway! All they will do is threaten to strike, they can’t be fired, and the establishment will cave and they get what they want.
Paying more for healthcare is for the unwashed masses...
Pity I can't pay the rent with "I told you so."
The academics I know all believe they are drastically underpaid. They also believe that professionals who deliver actual medical care are drastically overpaid.
When I ask them how much they think they should be earning they will start talking about some shortstop who just signed a 100 million dollar contract.
Most academics who are teaching and in charge at universities are products of the same public education and academic experience that they are now fast tracking (along with the rogue Chamber of Commerce types) Billy Gates double down vision, COMMON CORE.
American parents are far to busy with their job and career interests to wrestle their own kids out of the clutches of Marx on wheels.
Conservative pols calculate the degree of parental disinterest in the public school indoctrination of their own kids, and therefore nothing changes.
See tagline.
And those who can't teach...teach gym class.
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