Dr. Alan M. Garber, a physician and health economist who is the provost at Harvard, defended the change in benefits, acknowledging that Harvard employees would face greater cost-sharing but saying that such a policy "can slow the growth of health spending.” Credit Stephanie Mitchell, via Harvard University
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Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.
The faculty vote came too late to stop the cost increases from taking effect this month, and the anger on campus remains focused on questions that are agitating many workplaces: How should the burden of health costs be shared by employers and employees? If employees have to bear more of the cost, will they skimp on medically necessary care, curtail the use of less valuable services, or both?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us/health-care-fixes-backed-by-harvards-experts-now-roil-its-faculty.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=1
Harvard Ideas on Health Care Hit Home, Hard
By ROBERT PEARJAN
January 5, 2015
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[From article]
Some of the same Harvard faculty who supported the passage of Obamacare are now flipping out because the effects of that awesome law are starting to hit them. Sniff — pass the Kleenex!
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/01/05/oh-how-sad-harvard-profs-upset-because-obamacare-was-only-supposed-to-affect-the-rubes/
Oh how sad: Harvard profs upset because Obamacare was only supposed to affect the rubes
By Doug Powers
January 5, 2015 02:29 PM
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