City Workers of Bel Aire, Kansas, Losing Health Care They Like
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Today, Congressman
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"Now, BCBS offers other plans that we can choose from based on the government's standards. All offer higher deductibles and the two closest to our old plan each cost more than what we were paying. In addition, because we are under 50 employees, we no longer get a 'group'ate so everyone is being judged as a single.
"We have some long-term employees who are older and seeing their rates double. We are also seeing families paying more based on the number of children they have. We had a couple of employees who worked 20 hours a week and the city still allowed them on our health coverage plan.
"Now, BCBS said they will not cover anyone unless they work more than 30 hours per week. Therefore, those part-time employees will now lose their health coverage. To top it off, we were told if more than 25% of our ineligible employees choose to go elsewhere for their insurance, they will drop us, and all of our employees will have to go to the insurance exchange.
"As you are probably aware, governments typically pay a lower wage in exchange for better benefits. Now, our health insurance benefits are being eroded which may lead to a larger turnover in employees."
Lasher continued: "I simply wanted you to know the pain this is causing me and my staff in losing the terrific health coverage we had through
Congressman Pompeo, who sits on the
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