They got it, but now they dont want it.- Harvard University faculty expressed dissatisfaction in November upon learning that Obamacare was changing their healthcare plans. The average American might find irony there. As Reason’s Robby Soave observes, “the Harvard University faculty is among the most pro-Obamacare cohort in the country; many of Harvard’s top professors even served as advisors to the president and Congress, helping to craft and approve the Affordable Care Act.” For instance, 96 percent of 2012 political donations from Ivy League faculty and staff did go to President Obama’s campaign. But after helping craft the law and heavily support for the president, the faculty voted to oppose changes that would increase their healthcare costs, per a New York Times report: 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? Two professors even called Obamacare a tax on the sick in the New York Times story. Not even Harvard is insulated from rising healthcare costs and premiums are expected to go up more in 2015. Read more at rare.us/story/harvard-faculty-were-all-for-obamacare-until-their-own-healthcare-plans-started-changing/#QkF5yz7OPBg86z9l.99
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:37:23 +0000
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