Citing health overhaul, AARP hikes employee costs

[Casino67]

TheBlaze:

WASHINGTON (AP) — AARP's endorsement helped pass President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling employees their costs will go up as a result.

In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year because of rapidly rising medical costs.

And AARP says it is changing copayments and deductibles to avoid a 40 percent tax on high cost health plans that takes effect in 2018 under the law. Shifting costs to employees lowers the value of a health plan; it's like an escape hatch from the tax.

AARP officials said medical inflation is the main reason employee costs are rising. Its legislative affairs director, David Certner, says the health care law is "a small part."

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Is this what is called 'coming back to bite you'? I love the AARP. Especially when they get screwed too.

[Pepper]

 

I used to look like this until I signed up....

 

 

on that swell Obama Care. Now you too can look smug like Obama, knowing you screwed future generations out of freedom.

[Sabre86]

Every time I see the Andy Griffith Obamacare commercial, I have to change the channel. He has just become annoying beyond belief.

[Pepper]

That ad costs $3,000,000. Here are two remixes, Sabre86

 

 

 

 

 

[SrWoodchuck]

I keep getting AARP sign up mailers, junk mail & in my papers. They all have a free metered return envelope, so I tear all papers in half, and place them in the mailer, with a note on the folded original envelope saying,"Send this to Obama, he's got the money!"

 

AARP has to pay all postage on the return, and the post office gets an extra couple of cents toward their "legacy" pension costs.

 

I do it with the credit card solicitations, too; but just write "No, Thanks!" on those. Again, the company must pay return mail costs to the USPS, hopefully keeping the next stamp increase low.

[SrWoodchuck]

That ad costs $3,000,000. Here are two remixes, Sabre86

 

 

 

 

 

Pepper! Thanks.....it's hell gettin' old. I'd like to see a rock through the window in back, thrown by Ernest T. Bass.

[pollyannaish]

I.R.O.N.Y. = A.A.R.P.

 

I heart ETB.

 

 

Edited to add: Think he could still do it!

 

[Pepper]

That's the best news I heard since Tuesday's election results.

 

I am going to try that. That'd be a good way to get of extra scrap paper even table scraps.

 

Thanks, SrWoodChuck

 

 

I keep getting AARP sign up mailers, junk mail & in my papers. They all have a free metered return envelope, so I tear all papers in half, and place them in the mailer, with a note on the folded original envelope saying,"Send this to Obama, he's got the money!"

 

AARP has to pay all postage on the return, and the post office gets an extra couple of cents toward their "legacy" pension costs.

 

I do it with the credit card solicitations, too; but just write "No, Thanks!" on those. Again, the company must pay return mail costs to the USPS, hopefully keeping the next stamp increase low.

[Al_Simmons]

There is something to be said for aging gracefully - ie out of sight. Let the public remember you as you were in your prime. There is something sad about seeing public figures in their twilight years, with their faculties failing, shilling for some cause or other.

 

Does anyone really think that Griffith was not 'swayed' to do these ads? That is exploitation.

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON – AARP's endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law.

In an e-mail to employees, AARP says health care premiums will increase by 8 percent to 13 percent next year because of rapidly rising medical costs.

And AARP adds that it's changing copayments and deductibles to avoid a 40 percent tax on high-cost health plans that takes effect in 2018 under the law. Aerospace giant Boeing also has cited the tax in asking its workers to pay more. Shifting costs to employees lowers the value of a health care plan and acts like an escape hatch from the tax.

"Most plan co-pays and deductibles have been modified," Jennifer Hodges, AARP's director of compensation and benefits, wrote employees in an Oct. 25 e-mail. "Plan value changes were necessary not only from a cost management standpoint but also to ensure that AARP's plans fall below the threshold for high-cost group plans under health care reform."

AARP officials said medical inflation is the main reason employee costs will be going up. The health care law is "a small part," said David Certner, legislative affairs director.
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I'm sure their employees will be glad to hear that...

[Pepper]

Nah, I think he was a creep to begin with.

 

Think Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes. See his role in A Face in The Crowd

There is something to be said for aging gracefully - ie out of sight. Let the public remember you as you were in your prime. There is something sad about seeing public figures in their twilight years, with their faculties failing, shilling for some cause or other.

 

Does anyone really think that Griffith was not 'swayed' to do these ads? That is exploitation.