Universal Studios Resort in Orlando, Florida drops health insurance coverage for a big swath of its employees. Can't afford compliance with FHer-care's regulations.
There's no point in getting all indignant about the falsity of the MEC's claim that we'd get to keep our insurance if we liked it. The son of a bitch is orchestrating the circumstances by which we go to a single-payer system.
The reason: Universal currently offers part-time workers a limited insurance plan that has low premiums but also caps the payout of benefits. For instance, Universal’s plan costs about $18 a week for employee-only coverage but covers only a maximum of $5,000 a year toward hospital stays. There are similar caps for other services.
ReplyDeleteThose types of insurance plans — sometimes referred to as “mini-med” plans — will no longer be permitted under the federal Affordable Care Act. Beginning in 2014, the law will prohibit insurance plans that impose annual monetary limits on essential medical care such, as hospitalization, or on overall spending.
Universal is one of the largest employers in Central Florida, with approximately 17,000 employees. It has thousands of part-time workers, though Universal said only about 500 of them are enrolled in the current insurance plan, as many part-timers are covered by a parent’s or spouse’s insurance.
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/?p=41960
Don't know yet for sure, the act does not even become effective until 2014, one year away from my Medicare coverage(aka single-payer) goes into effect on 1/20/65, hey, that's single-payer ain't it, now they're talking about cutting it and OASI just in time for me, baah), but, yeayah, my hope is that we move to single-payer rather than whatever we had before which did not work either. So call me sheep, call me Commie, even shoot me.
ReplyDeleteWhat was wrong with the "old" system, you might ask? This was:
ReplyDeleteBreaking these trillions down into real bills going to real patients cuts through the ideological debate over health care policy. By dissecting the bills that people like Sean Recchi face, we can see exactly how and why we are overspending, where the money is going and how to get it back. We just have to follow the money.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/#ixzz2LXMdYZGq
All the more reason to maximize the competitiveness of all the players in the health care business. If they see the direct reason why they have to deliver value to the customer, everything will become simpler and less expensive.
ReplyDeleteAnd us free-marketeers are for less of a role for insurance. Insurance outght to be for really big-ticket outlays. Obtaining any kind of health care should for the most part be a direct transaction between provider and consumer.
Alas, we're headed exactly the opposite way.
On a very basic level, we need to get away from the idea that there is any sort of "system." There are people who need various aspects of their health addressed at any given time, and people in professions that do the addressing.
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