Healthcare costs and Harvard advisers are finally going to feel that cost

[cstone]

A surprisingly good piece from the New York Times relating the affects of the ACA on many of the people who championed the law. Here is the final quote from the piece and I find it telling that if you substitute the word Harvard for government, the quote actually reads like something that was used to sell the nation on the ACA in the first place.

“It seems that Harvard is trying to save money by shifting costs to sick people,” said Mary C. Waters, a professor of sociology. “I don’t understand why a university with Harvard’s incredible resources would do this. What is the crisis?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/us...-faculty.html?

[mutt]

Amazing how these people champion socialism for everyone else but when they have to sacrifice all of a sudden it's not fair. Considering their new plan is still way better than what most people get, they can go choke on it. About time they got to enjoy the benefits of the ACA.

[jerrymrc]

Yes I said it was the thing to do. Wait, Wait, ya mean it is going to affect ME! Oh hell no! Sorry, too late. They think like the Congress Critters. It wont affect ME! Now it is going to in a very small amount compared to the rest of the population and all hell breaks loose among the "ELITE"

That was he funnest thing I have read all year.

[roberth]

I love it. Actions have consequences. These are the "smart" people.... LOL Jackasses.

Who did they think was going to bear the costs, Santa Claus? Where do they think the government is going to get the money for ACA from, obama's stash? Liberals are so stupid, inept, and thoughtless. They don't even know what they're voting for, even when all the facts are right there for anyone to see.

[SAnd]

I like this from the comments from a different article-

"Unfortunately for Harvard profs, karma is a pre-existing condition not covered by obamacare."

[Great-Kazoo]

Just wait till they're on the receiving end of some Gentle Giant. That will be 2 things they regretted taking a stand on.

[Irving]

I read the full article and laughed the entire way through. Welcome to the real world, go find a seat in the back.

[cstone]

I read the full article and laughed the entire way through. Welcome to the real world, go find a seat in the back.

I know right? It has become rare that I find something so interesting in the NYT that I would even bother sharing it with anyone.

These are our intelligentsia who have been advising our nation's leaders. I think most of us have had a long held belief that the Harvard elite were hypocrites when it came to dolling out advice for the rest of us; this article just brings their hypocrisy into focus. Of course they were only complaining because the policy change hurts the lower paid Harvard employees

[68Charger]

Kick 'em to the exchanges...

[Irving]

Of course they were only complaining because the policy change hurts the lower paid Harvard employees

Yeah I thought the same thing. One of them said, "It's not about the money, it's the principle." Whatever. It's the principle because of the money.