UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from insurance; cites Obamacare

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  1. PapaG

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    http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2013/08/21/ups-to-drop-15000-spouses-from.html

     
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    Well this is more disappointing news. I guess I can not use UPS ever again.
     
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    I thought this wasn't supposed to happen? :MARIS61:
     
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    Reallly dude? Your blaming the USPS for this one? pull your head out of the sand.
     
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    FTFY
     
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    Just the opposite. Obamacare is to be the only healthcare offered in this country plan in time.
     
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    Yup, along with a required microchip implant
     
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    yeah...was not that long ago I had a conversation with our resident UPS driver..he seemed to believe that their union was too big for thistohappen..and that there was no way they would lose benifits etc etc..I am of the opinion that this is the tip of the iceberg..
     
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    Wait? What? No...... I just had dviss1 (I'm pretty sure it was him/her, but apologies in advance if it was a different poaster) in here telling me how wrong I was about health care, and how Obamacare was greater than God.

    But... but.... but.... :MARIS61:

    So people are being negatively effected by Obamacare after all?
     
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  10. Eastoff

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    UPS.
     
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    ok, I know better, but I have to ask..

    was this intended to be funny?

    was this to have been in green?

    was this just snark?

    were you serious?

    help a brother out and clue me in..
     
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    Let me just clarify how I perceive this. A law was passed to try to make healthcare more affordable, republicans say "No companies will just cheat and drop people from health coverage because it will get more expensive for them." Then companies to actually do drop health coverage and you (plural reader) say the law is to blame, and not the companies?
     
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  13. Eastoff

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    Sure, my point is that, I guess "HAHA jokes on me, I trusted Obama to be honest. But the law is in place now, and Obama is in office, so maybe I can do something else like use my money to vote on business actions."
     
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    FIFY
     
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    Teamsters aren't affected.

     
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    what? republicans were the first to say that the losers would be the employees..it was the left who claimed just what you say the right did..bull shit, dont change the facts to cover your ass over some dumb fucking quip...and yeah...obamacare is to blame, not the companies that got exceptions from obama, not the congresional aids that recieved exceptions..none of the people who have done theirbest to avoid this disaster...it is the disaster that is to blame..
     
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    ahh, thanks, I missed that.
     
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    :smiley-pat: :smiley-pat: :smiley-pat:
     
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    http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/8465-employer-health-benefits-20131.pdf

    http://kff.org/private-insurance/report/2013-employer-health-benefits/
     
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