Posted on 08/23/2010 9:00:02 AM PDT by darkwing104
Elections have consequences. Words really do have meaning. The fools in the Blue States are learning these truths the hard way.
The Hope and Change crowd is getting some change, but not the kind they thought they were getting when they closed their ears and eyes and voted for a charlatan they knew nothing about.
The costs of Obamacare, that many of us warned about, are already being felt in several states that voted for Barack Obama and the best part is the first victims out of the shoot are the unionized public employees.
In Iowa state employees using Blue Cross/Blue Shield are paying up to 11.2% more in premiums for the same or less health care thanks to the provisions of Obamacare. The State of Iowa will pay an additional $17 million to cover its employee’s medical insurance as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
My Blue Cross - Blue Shield insurance (high deductible with health care savings account) went up more than twenty percent, effective next month.
It goes up every year, but usually only about 10%.
I hate to nitpick coach, but a lousy vocabulary diminishes the point you're trying to make.
The word is chute.
sheesh ...
“The State of Iowa will pay an additional $17 million to cover its employee’s medical insurance”...
How about phrasing it this way, “the taxpayers that don’t work for the government are now stuck paying an additional $17 million to cover government employee’s medical insurance.”
There, that’s better.
There is a post going around the ‘net about the amount of money a company pays for an employee’s being counted as taxable income. Anything to this?
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