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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 777975" data-attributes="member: 25159">Citing health care law, Boeing pares employee planIn a letter mailed to employees late last week, the company cited the overhaul as part of the reason it is asking some 90,000 nonunion workers to pay significantly more for their health plan next year. A copy of the letter was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.&quot;The newly enacted health care reform legislation, while intended to expand access to care for millions of uninsured Americans, is also adding cost pressure as requirements of the new law are phased in over the next several years,&quot; wrote Rick Stephens, Boeing&#039;s senior vice president for human resources.Boeing is the latest major employer (Dont forget 3M also) to signal a shift for its workers as a result of the legislation, which expands coverage to more than 30 million uninsured people and ranks as President Barack Obama&#039;s top domestic (failure) achievement. Earlier, McDonald&#039;s had raised questions about whether a limited benefit plan that serves some 30,000 of its employees would remain viable under the law. That prompted the administration to issue McDonald&#039;s a waiver (making changes already...oops) from certain requirements under the law.&nbsp;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101018/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_costs_boeing" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101018/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_costs_boeing</a>&nbsp;I thought one of the reasons for Obamacare was to help cut costs for the middle class...NOT!!!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 777975, member: 25159"] [B][SIZE=2]Citing health care law, Boeing pares employee plan[/SIZE][/B] In a letter mailed to employees late last week, [B]the company cited the overhaul as part of the reason it is asking some 90,000 nonunion workers to pay significantly more for their health plan next year.[/B] A copy of the letter was obtained Monday by The Associated Press. "The newly enacted health care reform legislation, [B]while intended to expand access to care for millions of uninsured Americans[/B], is also adding cost pressure as requirements of the new law are phased in over the next several years," wrote Rick Stephens, Boeing's senior vice president for human resources. Boeing is the latest major employer [COLOR=blue](Dont forget 3M also) [/COLOR]to signal a shift for its workers as a result of the legislation, which expands coverage to more than 30 million uninsured people and ranks as President Barack Obama's top domestic [COLOR=blue](failure) [/COLOR]achievement. Earlier, McDonald's had raised questions about whether a limited benefit plan that serves some 30,000 of its employees would remain viable under the law. [B]That prompted the administration to issue McDonald's a waiver [COLOR=blue](making changes already...oops) [/COLOR]from certain requirements under the law.[/B] [URL]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101018/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_costs_boeing[/URL] [COLOR=blue]I thought one of the reasons for Obamacare was to help cut costs for the middle class...NOT!!![/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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