Health care law could cost UNC system $46M

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Chapel Hill, N.C. —

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Starting next year, large employers must provide insurance for all employees who work more than 30 hours a week. The UNC system has 8,586 visiting professors, graduate assistants and others who meet that threshold but don't qualify for coverage under the State Health Plan because they are considered non-permanent employees.

Under the Affordable Care Act, the university system would have to provide insurance to all of those workers. The average cost of state health insurance is about $5,400 per year, bringing the total potential cost to $46.4 million.

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UNC administrators say they might reduce the hours for many of the temporary workers to fewer than 30 per week to dodge the health care law's coverage requirement.

"We're (also) going to seek legislation from the General Assembly that would allow us to create a more cost-effective health care plan that still meets ACA coverage requirements but would cost us about $2,000 less per employee," Perusse said.

http://www.wral.com/health-care-law-could-cost-unc-system-46m/13453286/

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1. oh ffs it's like the hindenberg crashing into the titanic

Bad law, fucking up the UNC loophole of non-coverage for fakily classified employees. Poor UNC. Wah.

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2. All true -

but it is also true that quite a few university and college systems have already cut hours for "non-permanent" employees (read that as adjunct faculty) to avoid the new rule. What UNC is contemplating isn't a surprise.

You can force a horse to the trough but you can't make it drink. The people who are so "fakily classified" are the ones who are paying the price, as usual.

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3. Meanwhile, Thom Tillis is licking his chops.

Good luck in November, Kay Hagan!

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4. Raise your voice in jubilation, Ladies and Gents....

"We're (also) going to seek legislation from the General Assembly that would allow us to create a more cost-effective health care plan that still meets ACA coverage requirements but would cost us about $2,000 less per employee,"

The seeds of single-payer are being sown.


Do something unseemly to the Health Insurance Corporations.

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5. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina...

will remain unscathed.