Losing Insurance - Thanks, Obamacare!

[dreadfulpenny81]

I work in a call center 8 hours a day, 5 days a week dealing with the full spectrum from really nice people to complete boneheads. In the middle of a call today, a member of our human resources team handed out packets to everyone and I made the mistake of reading the first paragraph in between calls. My blood was ready to boil.

Comments

[marycatelli]

They want it to make you miserable and to fail horribly -- and to damage the insurance industry. Then they can get single-payer, like they have always wanted.

[lazypadawan]

That sucks :(.

[farchivist]

I do have a serious question to ask: Why is your company so cheap on its medical benefits?

I have a full benefits package through my company: medical, dental, vision, no deductible on anything, mostly 100% coverage, matching dollars on the FSA, so on. It only costs me about $225/month. I would figure that this should be about standard for ANY successful corporation, but most people I hear of it sounds like their companies cheap out. I just don't get out.

[brendala]

Some companies are smaller than the one you work for.

I work for a family owned company. The owners are very generous to their employees and they want to provide benefits to every worker. But this family isn't a mega-corporation and doesn't have the cash to give everyone top-shelf coverage. So everyone gets a basic plan (and the option to pay a little more for a better one). The coverage isn't perfect, but it's better than getting nothing.

[farchivist]

Some companies are smaller than the one you work for.

That is correct. I generally assign those not in the Forbes 500 or Fortune Global 500 the status of "don't have the chops to be a real company". I also won't work for any company not on those lists.

I work for a family owned company. The owners are very generous to their employees and they want to provide benefits to every worker. But this family isn't a mega-corporation and doesn't have the cash to give everyone top-shelf coverage.

OK....so we get back to things I don't understand. Why doesn't this family-owned company expand until they go mega? Are they just not that capitalistic? Do they know they would lose or something? It's just....kind of inconceivable to me why that company would not fight to reach the point where they can afford what I consider to be normal benefits.

But then, I don't understand why all the lawn companies in my state don't just join together into a single corporation and go public either. They could make more money doing that.

[ford_prefect42]

Well, not all companies go about getting monopoly protections put in place so that they can loot and pillage the overall economy.

But it's nice to see that you're still the same troll you always were.

[brendala]

I work long hours at a call center, too. And I worry about what will happen with the health plan I've got. I know the owner will keep providing benefits as long as it's financially possible to do so (I'm lucky to work for a company owned by a really neat family). But rumor has it that in a few years benefits you get via your job (like medical/dental plans) will be taxed like income based on what the government thinks they're worth. So, in addition the all the taxes ALREADY taken from your paycheck, you'll get an extra tax for the "value" of your job perks

[kaspurr]

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