Walgreens shifts workers to private health exchanges

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So much for if you like your health plan you can keep it

Another example of the sham of Obamacare and this is exactly what liberals wanted to happen when they rammed Obamacare through

Just another day in Liberalville as working class folks get screwed by the very people they claim to care so much about





Walgreens will stop offering health insurance directly to its workers in 2014, instead shifting them to policies in a private insurance exchange, the company announced Wednesday.Walgreens will subsidize the cost of the policies, and more than 160,000 workers will be affected.

The medical plan includes more traditional HMO and PPO policies, as well as three high-deductible plans, where workers shoulder higher out-of-pocket costs in exchange for lower monthly premiums. This year, the company only offered two high-deductible plans.

Walgreens will contribute the same total share to health care benefits next year as is did this year, though it is not disclosing the size of the subsidy. Some employees, however, may see premiums rise if they pick a more generous plan, said spokesman Michael Polzin.

The company's tab for health care costs for next year remained essentially flat, allowing it to keep its contribution to workers level, he said. In future years, the company's intention is to continue picking up the same share of the cost as it does today, Polzin said.

The nation's largest drug store chain becomes the latest to radically overhaul its employee benefits plan in the months before major provisions of Obamacare kick in. UPS (UPS (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=UPS&source=story_quote_link), Fortune 500 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/snapshots/2071.html?iid=EL)) recently announced it would no longer cover workers' spouses (http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/21/news/companies/ups-obamacare/index.html?iid=EL) who have access to health insurance. IBM (IBM (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=IBM&source=story_quote_link), Fortune 500 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/snapshots/225.html?iid=EL)) and and Time Warner (TWX (http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=TWX&source=story_quote_link), Fortune 500 (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/snapshots/10472.html?iid=EL)) are moving retirees into private exchanges.


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Despite the fact Obamacare is screwing over millions of hard working Americans - the liberal media has started their campaign to defend Obama and Obamacare regardless of the impact it is having on this flat line economy



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and from SeeBS:




On Wednesday's CBS Evening News and Thursday's CBS This Morning, Nancy Cordes repeatedly played up how an unidentified Republican in the U.S. Senate attacked a House proposal to de-fund ObamaCare as "suicide". Cordes underlined that "Speaker Boehner was forced into the risky strategy by his right flank", and wondered if the plan was "just a recipe for a government shutdown".

Norah O'Donnell picked up where the correspondent left off, asserting that "there feels like something new about this fight this time...and that is that the Senate Republicans are saying to their colleagues in the House, you've gone crazy on this." Charlie Rose quickly added that these anonymous GOP senators were "describing it as a dumb idea".
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley led Cordes' first report by spotlighting that "the Fed chairman warned that Washington could still wreck the economy, and the chances of that seem higher tonight. Congress is facing two deadlines...one, to fund the government; the other to increase the amount the U.S. can legally borrow. If Congress doesn't act, the government could shut down, or it could default on its debts. But Republicans in the House said today that they won't pass those bills unless they can drop all of the funding for...ObamaCare."




Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2013/09/19/cbs-hypes-senate-gop-attacking-crazy-tea-partys-obamacare-suicide-not#ixzz2fPnzOjBj