Star Member theHandpuppet (12,903 posts)
Okay, I'm really damn mad right now
My sister and her husband are retirees living modestly on pension incomes. This past week they received a letter from Martin Marietta, informing them that their health insurance would be cut, forcing them to pay for their own medications, which are considerable. Supposedly the company blames the cost of Obamacare for this move, all the while recording record profits!!!!!!! This is bullshit.
BTW, this article was published in a Florida paper but the cuts are nationwide (my sis lives in Ohio).
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1988-10-25/business/0080010254_1_martin-marietta-health-insurance-central-florida-health
October 25, 1988|By Catherine Hinman of The Sentinel Staff
Martin Marietta Corp. will reduce health benefits on Jan. 1 for all salaried employees, including 10,500 in Orlando, in an effort to contain skyrocketing insurance costs .
The corporation paid $150 million last year to cover health insurance premiums, 25 percent more than the year before, officials said. This year, Martin expects another double-digit increase, they said, and some action was necessary if only to hold the line
In a separate announcement Monday, the corporation reported a hefty profit increase in its most recent fiscal quarter.
''For Martin Marietta to remain competitive in its markets and to continue to win the new programs necessary to retain our current levels of employment, we must contain the rate of growth of health-care costs,'' Bobby P. Leonard, vice president, wrote in a letter to employees dated Friday…. MORE
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023925621They can just budget their money better that is the answer one of you DUmmies gave to another DUmmy who was bitching about his health insurance going up.
the article that is referenced in this rant is dated 1988, more on that later.
Star Member chervilant (4,926 posts)
2. They can't even lie with any finesse!
And, throwing in the partisan "Obamacare" red herring -- just to delude the already delusional!
Every Dem in the nation should call the ACA by its proper designation, and remind the hate-mongering, fear-mongering racists that Romney's hired legal lackeys authored the original version of this Act.
I'm certain they prefer not to call it by its name. If you call it by its name it is more apparent how Orwellian it is.
I love how you claim that this whole thing was Romney's fault, when it was your preezy along with his stooges Pelosi and Reid who shoved this down our throats. You idiots own this. You voted for it, you cheered when it was passed, you cheered even louder when Justice Roberts helped you keep it legal, now you can suffer the consequences of your own actions. This is a rare instance where the repukes share none of the blame.
Star Member Adsos Letter (14,415 posts)
3. October25, 1988?
Star Member theHandpuppet (12,903 posts)
7. A mistake by the paper?
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The article appeared in today's paper and my sister and her husband just received their letter a few days ago. Cuts are to take effect on Jan. 1
Looks like the DUmmy found numbers from 1988 to try to make the corporation look bad.
Star Member theHandpuppet (12,903 posts)
14. The only thing I can think of....
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When my sis told me about the letter I did a search for any news about the company cutting the health care benefits for their retirees. The article I mentioned in the OP came up as published in today's paper but with that old date.
The only thing I can figure is that the article I found pertains to a previous cut and the one which just happened hasn't hit the mainstream media yet? Anyway, yes, there are cuts coming to the health care benefits for their retirees and its going to hit some people really hard, including my family. The costs of prescription medicines alone is going to be a burden.
The MSM is really slow if they are just now getting to a story from 1988.
Star Member Curmudgeoness (11,728 posts)
18. Since this same thing has been happening for years,
it is only an idiot who will believe that Obamacare is the culprit. Insurance premiums have risen well above the cost of living for decades. Health care costs have gone up at the same rates, as have drug costs. Companies have been screwing retirees by dropping insurance on them for years and years.
But all of a sudden, it is all Obamacare's fault. That is a convenient scapegoat, but it is a lie.
Let me try to explain it to you DUmmy. 0bamacare was sold as a bill that was going to lower health care costs, it was supposed to make premiums drop by 3000% or more accurately $3000, 0bama screwed it up, and our employers were supposed to give us all raises due to their savings on health care. Well the bill passed and costs have gone up and up, so yes this is the fault of the democrats, they didn't deliver on what they promised. Only the low information freaks like you can't see what a massive failure this is.
Star Member silverweb (13,495 posts)
20. New headline coming soon:
"Employers Across the Country Clamor for Single Payer Healthcare"
It's coming.
This DUmmy finally realizes the whole point of this exercise, the whole thing was to make health care such a mess that more and more people will demand single payer. In the meantime everyone gets to suffer needlessly all for 0bama and the DUmmies to get their way.
