Boeing Employees Are The Latest Victims of Obamacare

Another day, another Obamacare surprise. Via the AP:Aerospace giant Boeing is joining the list of companies that say the new health care law could have a potential downside for their workers.In a letter mailed to employees late last week, the company cited the overhaul as part of the reason it is asking some 90,000 nonunion workers to pay significantly more for their health plan next year. A copy of the letter was obtained Monday by The Associated Press."The newly enacted health care reform legislation, while intended to expand access to care for millions of uninsured Americans, is also adding cost pressure as requirements of the new law are phased in over the next several years," wrote Rick Stephens, Boeing's senior vice president for human resources.Boeing will essentially be forced by Obamacare to reduce the quality of the health benefits they offer their employees in order to avoid the so-called "Cadillac" tax. The Cadillac tax is a levy on health care planes deemed overly generous under the arbitrary rules Obamacare imposes on private sector businesses.But how can this be? I seem to remember Obama claiming people could keep their health care coverage if they liked it and that anyone who questioned this claim was employing scare tactics or worse. Am I wrong about that? Hmmmmm...If you like your current plan, you will be able to keep it. Let me repeat that: If you like your plan, you'll be able to keep it.He even said it twice for emphasis which, of course, doesn't make it so. Either he was lying when he made this statement or didn't know any better. Given what we've come to learn about our polarizing President, I suspect both. In any event, today's announcement by Boeing is no surprise and just another in an almost daily drip of bad news as the unintended consequences of Obamacare continue to come to light. Obama also promised that Obamacare would cut the average family's health care premiums by $2500 per year.I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family's premiums by up to $2500 a year.I guess that "solemn pledge" doesn't apply to employees of Boeing. This is all nonsense, of course, and Governor Palin pointed this out in her devastating critique of Obamacare last month:Remember when the president said, ?If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor?? Not true. In Texas alone a record number of doctors are leaving the Medicare system because of the cuts in reimbursements forced on them by Obamacare! The president of the Texas Medical Association, Dr. Susan Bailey, warns that ?the Medicare system is beginning to implode.?Remember the Obama administration?s promise that Obamacare would cut a typical family?s premium ?by up to $2500 a year?? Not true. In fact, fueled by reports that insurers expect premiums to rise by as much as 25 percent as a result of Obamacare, Senate Democrats are contemplating the introduction of price controls.Boeing is headquartered in Everett, Washington where a close Senate race is underway. My guess is that the many Boeing employees located in the state are less than thrilled to be the latest casualties of Obamacare. Here's hoping they take out their frustrations on Obamacare supporter Patty Murray at the ballot box in 15 days.

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