Delta Airlines says that ObamaCare will cost the company $38 million directly over the next year, and nearly $100 million when all additional costs are factored in.
...and this would be prior to anyone needing, seeing, being referred to, being admitted to a hospital, clinic, or anywhere else there might be medical professionals practicing, and this is just one company of tens of thousands. So, what is left to say other than get rid of this travesty before anything else goes wrong.
This looks like a big enough travesty that everyone associated with its appearance and passage should rightly fear for their very lives.
We have to answer to our stockholders who are US citizens, investors who risked their capital, their retirement funds and life savings into our sense of responsibility and accountability!
Now where do we make the cut while still meeting our financial obligations?!? If we cut value to the shareholder, what happens to the assessed value of our business - how does that make us an attractive investment? If we cut services to our employees, how does that fairly compensate them for their efforts during the obama depression? If we cut services in general, how does that help our customers? WTF are you trying to do to us?!? Our money? NO, YOUR MONEY and obama just made millions of dollars of it just DISAPPEAR FOR NOTHING!!!
Uhm, rant off...
I’d never thought about that (duhhhh....). It isn’t just the direct costs of Obamacare and the destruction of medical care as we used to know it. There are also going to be indirect costs as employers have to raise the price of things because of those costs.
“A June letter signed by Robert Knight, Delta’s senior vice president for government affairs, said that the company will absorb some of those costs...”
That is, higher airfares that the AIR TRAVELER willl absorb because all airlines will go up.
Recession coming.
(And have you ever wondered why a company from “the greatest country in the world” needs a VP of “government affairs”?)
I'm going out on a small limb and predicting that Robert Knight will shortly be receiving an audit letter from the IRS for the high crime of criticizing the Regime. I know. It's not much of a prediction. More of a sort of inevitable other-shoe-drop.
Given the low airline profit margins, this cannot be true, unless Delta is planning to go bankrupt and out of business. The company will pass 100% of those costs on to employees in the form of reduced benefits in other areas or to customers in the form of higher ticket prices and other fees. There are no winners other than the insiders who helped write ObamaCare as the biggest crony capitalism trophy law in history.
An alternative is for Delta and other companies to stop providing group insurance. They can give their employees a raise to offset what they had been paying toward coverage and dump them all to the ACA website.
Delta stock will soar, as future costs decrease.
This will add to the people directly affected by the ACA and the cry for single payer as a “solution” will get louder.
Oh....and the coverage is WORSE!!!
not “better”.
And the little islamist says, “allah effu”.
Delta is also getting assaulted by the EPA because of new refinery regulations. Delta bought a refinery in order to manufacture jet fuel, but a new cover all reg will put huge expenses on them.
The hits just keep coming.