When ObamaCare came to Harvard

carpro · Jan 6, 2015

http://nypost.com/2015/01/05/when-obamacare-came-to-harvard/

When ObamaCare came to Harvard

ObamaCare has come to Harvard, and the faculty is in a state of shock and dismay.

In what has to be considered an early contender for the most hilarious and enjoyable news story of the year, The New York Times recounts the tumult over ObamaCare in Cambridge.

“For years,” the Times writes, “Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.”

Revmitchell · Jan 6, 2015

Just saw a report today that many people who have received so called subsidies after they signed up for obamacare will have to pay them back with their tax refunds.

carpro · Jan 6, 2015

Here is the original New York Times Story. I can't stop laughing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/u...rvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?_r=0

EXCERPT

Professors at Harvard have until now generally avoided the higher expenses that other employers have been passing on to employees. That makes the outrage among the faculty remarkable, Mr. Cutler said, because “Harvard was and remains a very generous employer.”

In Harvard’s health care enrollment guide for 2015, the university said it “must respond to the national trend of rising health care costs, including some driven by health care reform,” in the form of the Affordable Care Act. The guide said that Harvard faced “added costs” because of provisions in the health care law that extend coverage for children up to age 26, offer free preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies and, starting in 2018, add a tax on high-cost insurance, known as the Cadillac tax.

Richard F. Thomas, a Harvard professor of classics and one of the world’s leading authorities on Virgil, called the changes “deplorable, deeply regressive, a sign of the corporatization of the university.”

Mary D. Lewis, a professor who specializes in the history of modern France and has led opposition to the benefit changes, said they were tantamount to a pay cut. “Moreover,” she said, “this pay cut will be timed to come at precisely the moment when you are sick, stressed or facing the challenges of being a new parent.”

SNIP

“It’s equivalent to taxing the sick,” Professor Green said. “I don’t think there’s any government in the world that would tax the sick.”

Meredith B. Rosenthal, a professor of health economics and policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, said she was puzzled by the outcry. “The changes in Harvard faculty benefits are parallel to changes that all Americans are seeing,” she said. “Indeed, they have come to our front door much later than to others.”
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OldRegular · Jan 7, 2015

carpro said: ↑

Here is the original New York Times Story. I can't stop laughing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/u...rvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?_r=0
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Unless i am mistaken these elites only pay 10% of the cost! The college picks up the rest!

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