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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 1198716" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Yes, our healthcare was going up every year. This coming year it's not going up, but coverage will be at 70%. Under the ACA an insurance plan is considered sufficient if it gives at least 60% coverage. So it allowed employers, FedEx included, to save money by putting a greater burden on the employees. Here's the catch-22: employees are free to buy better coverage on their state's exchange(or the federal run exchange if the state doesn't have one). However it will cost more and if their employer offers a plan with at least 60% coverage then the employee can't get a gov't subsidy to lessen the cost of the more expensive gov't plans. Only the unemployed and the employed who don't have employer insurance(employer doesn't offer it) and are below income limits will get subsidies. </p><p></p><p>As for the rest, it's easy to turn this back on Republicans and treat us all like a bunch of ignorant crackers. But the truth is the Obama administration, along with fighting two expensive wars that the Bush administration got us into, has also greatly increased gov't bureaucracy, and spent billions on companies that also were major contributors to their campaigns. And spent billions propping up teachers and gov't unions. So much so that they spent considerably more in the first four years than Bush spent in 8. And Bush wasn't conservative in his spending, spent way too much too. If y'all would ever get past the partisan politics and just accept the facts as they are maybe you'd realize that the Republicans talk about Mom, country, and apple pie but they're really just greedy bastards appealing to a certain constituency for their votes. And Democrats can talk about social justice, saving the earth, diversity, etc but at the end of the day little changes. And they line their pockets while getting their constituencies votes. And we're all getting played. There's just too much money in this country and the folks in Washington are primarily concerned with coming up with creative ways to get their hooks in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 1198716, member: 24302"] Yes, our healthcare was going up every year. This coming year it's not going up, but coverage will be at 70%. Under the ACA an insurance plan is considered sufficient if it gives at least 60% coverage. So it allowed employers, FedEx included, to save money by putting a greater burden on the employees. Here's the catch-22: employees are free to buy better coverage on their state's exchange(or the federal run exchange if the state doesn't have one). However it will cost more and if their employer offers a plan with at least 60% coverage then the employee can't get a gov't subsidy to lessen the cost of the more expensive gov't plans. Only the unemployed and the employed who don't have employer insurance(employer doesn't offer it) and are below income limits will get subsidies. As for the rest, it's easy to turn this back on Republicans and treat us all like a bunch of ignorant crackers. But the truth is the Obama administration, along with fighting two expensive wars that the Bush administration got us into, has also greatly increased gov't bureaucracy, and spent billions on companies that also were major contributors to their campaigns. And spent billions propping up teachers and gov't unions. So much so that they spent considerably more in the first four years than Bush spent in 8. And Bush wasn't conservative in his spending, spent way too much too. If y'all would ever get past the partisan politics and just accept the facts as they are maybe you'd realize that the Republicans talk about Mom, country, and apple pie but they're really just greedy bastards appealing to a certain constituency for their votes. And Democrats can talk about social justice, saving the earth, diversity, etc but at the end of the day little changes. And they line their pockets while getting their constituencies votes. And we're all getting played. There's just too much money in this country and the folks in Washington are primarily concerned with coming up with creative ways to get their hooks in it. [/QUOTE]
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