This is what I call “social justice” – the faculty at Harvard is freaking out over increased health insurance costs because of Obamacare after many championed the legislation for everyone else!
From the New York Times:
For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.
Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.
The faculty vote came too late to stop the cost increases from taking effect this month, and the anger on campus remains focused on questions that are agitating many workplaces: How should the burden of health costs be shared by employers and employees? If employees have to bear more of the cost, will they skimp on medically necessary care, curtail the use of less valuable services, or both?
Wow. Sounds like they should have read the bill before it passed, huh? LOL!
Oh well.. something tells me they’ll be able to afford the higher insurance costs:
One Percent Problems MT @KevinWGlass: Harvard profs upset that Obamacare means they'll have to pay more pic.twitter.com/mpycEqxz4u
— Michael Watson (@MichaelWatsonDC) January 5, 2015