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UPS to drop 15,000 spouses from insurance, cites Obamacare
Atlanta Business Chronicle ^ | Aug 21, 2013, 5:13am EDT Updated: Aug 21, 2013, 7:13am EDT

Posted on 08/21/2013 5:22:33 AM PDT by Perdogg

United Parcel Service Inc. plans to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere. The Atlanta-based logistics company points to the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as a big reason for the decision, reports Kaiser Health News.

(Excerpt) Read more at bizjournals.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; aca; democrats; economy; epicfail; insurancedropped; jobs; obama; obamacare; pelosi; spouses; ups
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To: DAC21

Indeed. It’s going to depend on who is running the negotiations for the Teamsters. The rank and file are extremely dedicated and hard working guys (I worked for UPS for 8 years) who won’t want to strike. If it’s still Hoffa he has already come out and said that Obamacare will destroy their health plans: http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/15/labor-leaders-obamacare-will-shatter-their-health-benefits-cause-nightmare-scenarios/


21 posted on 08/21/2013 6:14:44 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: DAC21

The health law requires large employers to cover employees and dependent children, but not spouses or domestic partners, Kaiser adds.

“Wow, a bit of an oversight, no? “


no oversight at all. Spouses are expected to get off their bottoms and go out there and work for the state! Bring in those tax dollars, Baby!

Stay at homes add value but their services are not taxable, yet.


22 posted on 08/21/2013 6:24:30 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Dr. Sivana

It is bringing UPS to equal pay for equal work—instead of paying married employees, via their spouse’s healthcare—far more than single employees.


23 posted on 08/21/2013 6:26:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Chickensoup

Just because stay-at-homes at value doesn’t mean single employees should get less pay than married ones.


24 posted on 08/21/2013 6:28:09 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

But I would be upset if they took my spouse off the healthcare, but not the stay-at-home spouse of someone else. Seems like they could continue to cover the spouses but charge the full premium (no subsidy from UPS), and then it would be more of a “choice” to the employees, rather than seemingly a penalty.


25 posted on 08/21/2013 6:37:30 AM PDT by NEMDF
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To: Perdogg

I think that the drivers are Teamsters, so they are just getting what they endorsed.....


26 posted on 08/21/2013 6:38:19 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: angcat

I believe they are all Teamster members.


27 posted on 08/21/2013 6:46:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Paine in the Neck

Right, isn’t UPS a Union shop?


28 posted on 08/21/2013 6:56:10 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: Alberta's Child

However, the other side of the story is that if a worker is worried about his/her family not being taken care of (such as medical insturance), that employee is going to be distracted from doing his/her best work. Just my two cents worth. In other words, this is just part of the total compensation packaged considered when filling a position.


29 posted on 08/21/2013 7:23:28 AM PDT by upbeat5
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To: Perdogg

This has been the plan all along: Make private insurance unaffordable then make government insurance the only plan available then allowed.


30 posted on 08/21/2013 7:35:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Perdogg

They are behind about 2 decades.

The company I worked for an many others, started refusing to pay medical costs if the spouse was covered until the spouses’s costs exceed their company’s limits.

So if your spouse had a health insurance policy covered by another company, our insurance became a secondary insurance.

When the group of doctors, who were my wife’s employers started to pay for health insurance, she negotiated an great one time raise in lieu of going on their plan. It worked well for her employees and her.


31 posted on 08/21/2013 7:39:30 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Obozoliar and his thugs in his outhouse lie 24/7/365. They are unable to tell the truth.)
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To: NEMDF

And the reality probably would be that all spouses would choose insurance through the exchange, or whatever, rather than pay the full load for the super-premium packages that most employers have offered.


32 posted on 08/21/2013 7:45:19 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 2001convSVT
Right, isn’t UPS a Union shop?

Yes, and ultra-liberal.
33 posted on 08/21/2013 8:56:37 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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To: 9YearLurker

Just because stay-at-homes at value doesn’t mean single employees should get less pay than married ones.

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Huh? Left field?


34 posted on 08/21/2013 10:43:42 AM PDT by Chickensoup (200 million unarmed " people killed in the 20th century by Leftist Totalitarian Fascists)
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To: Chickensoup

That’s what currently happens: married workers get upwards of $10K a year more than their single colleagues—in the form of spousal healthcare benefits.


35 posted on 08/21/2013 10:57:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DAC21

So some disease ridden guy marries a UPS manager in a gay marriage and he is not automatically covered? Wow will he be pissed!


36 posted on 08/21/2013 11:24:33 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Kill Obamacare not wound it.)
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To: Perdogg

Epic fail.


37 posted on 08/21/2013 6:45:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Perdogg

As planned.


38 posted on 08/21/2013 7:21:29 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Perdogg

Ha.

Suck on that labor unions. :)


39 posted on 08/21/2013 7:46:56 PM PDT by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: don-o

Excatly. That is why they call them “Benefits”


40 posted on 08/21/2013 8:39:35 PM PDT by funfan
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