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"Like many large companies, Delta faces significantly increased healthcare costs in 2014 and beyond," the company said in a statement on Friday. "Delta will absorb the vast majority of those increased costs so that we can continue providing a high value, high quality health plan. Consistent with our culture, Delta will always keep the best interests of our people in mind in connection with the healthcare and other benefits we provide."
Read more: Delta warns ObamaCare will drive $100 million spike in health care costs | Fox News
All I have to say is Duhhhhh!!!!!!
All I have to say is Duhhhhh!!!!!!
"Delta will absorb most of these costs..."
Yeah, right. :roll:
They'll either find something to cut (as in, they'll find some people to fire) or they'll hike up their ticket prices. Count on it. Their shareholders aren't going to stand for "Delta will absorb most of these costs"
How is this different from any other year?
All I have to say is Duhhhhh!!!!!!
Stuff costs money. Delta can bear the cost or go out of business. It's their choice.
You mean Delta can pass on the costs and/or cut costs, or go out of business.
Stuff costs money. Delta can bear the cost or go out of business. It's their choice.
That's brilliant. So your solution is to drive companies out of business if they don't agree with the President's radical agenda?
Though the insurance exchange is supposed to bring down costs for people without job-sponsored coverage, it won’t help Hattey and an estimated 226,525 other uninsured Missourians. They make too little to qualify for government subsidies.
Yes, too little.
In a twist that wasn’t intended by the authors of the federal Affordable Care Act, most of Missouri’s poorest, working-age residents — those under age 65 and below the poverty line of $11,490 for an individual and $15,510 for a couple — aren’t eligible for government help.
For people in the gap, health insurance exchange won't help
The goal is to ensure access to health care for all Americans. The complicated system forced on us, a system with a number of unintended consequences, is what we have for right now. However unfortunate it might be, Delta must comply.
Whatever Delta and its employees face is not the worst to happen to Americans because of Republican obstruction and obfuscation.
A system which subsidizes the affluent and ignores the poor is an abomination. It is an outrage of unimaginable proportions.
First, you seem to revile in the idea of Delta collapsing. Then you call the health care bill complicated and forced on us and then you tell us it is the Republicans' fault? What part of that bill was endorsed, passed or liked by any republican? This is all Obama/Pelosi/Reid and the special interests they invited to the table.
The Democrats are not blameless in this outrage. Their guilt, though, is less. Their offense is not one of commission but one of omission. They didn't fight hard enough to overcome the abuses of the legislative process by the Republicans. They didn't find a way to reach the goal in a way that included everyone.
Stuff costs money. Delta can bear the cost or go out of business. It's their choice.
The Democrats are not blameless in this outrage. Their guilt, though, is less. Their offense is not one of commission but one of omission. They didn't fight hard enough to overcome the abuses of the legislative process by the Republicans. They didn't find a way to reach the goal in a way that included everyone.
That is the most laughable thing I've read on here. You actually think that the Republicans are the primary blame/cause of OBAMA Care?
Seriously? You actually think that? Because I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that. What part of the bill did the Republicans put in that has caused this mess? What part of the bill did the Republicans put in period? Everything in that bill went through Reid, Pelosi and Obama and came from special interest groups. This was not a bill written on the Hill. It was a bill written in corporate offices and designed to make a very select few a ton of money. Throw in a few willing patsies like Caterpillar, AMA and AARP and you have a recipe for disaster. But what isn't in there is anything a republican proposed.
Hey, and if ticket prices double, that will stimulate the economy and create jobs, right?
You mean they couldn't find the votes to enact single payer, is that it?
Single-payer and the public option were preferable to PPACA but they never had a chance because of the Republicans. The Democrats were forced to build a complicated system which was second rate from the start because of the Republicans obstruction and obfuscation. Remember death panels? They never existed but the convinced millions of Americans they did.
Single-payer and the public option were preferable to PPACA but they never had a chance because of the Republicans. The Democrats were forced to build a complicated system which was second rate from the start because of the Republicans obstruction and obfuscation. Remember death panels? They never existed but the convinced millions of Americans they did.
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