As my husband noted in forwarding this
link to me, the first step in controlling costs is finding out what they are. Employees of large companies are just now receiving their first W-2's revealing the cost of the health-benefit portion of their compensation.
Heh. I started seeing it last year, when I could no longer opt out of certain coverage and got an extra $1000/year added to the tab for my bare-bones "run-over-by-bus" plan. I dread this year's increases.
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I've got one of those run-over-by-a-bus plans, but I pay cash for it. More than $1,000/year, I'm afraid!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was larger than even I thought, and I've been alerting my coworkers to watch for the number for the last year.
ReplyDeleteThis part caught my attention:
ReplyDelete"The law calls for the report to have been included in W-2s last year, but Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declared employers would have a one-year reprieve."
Yes, never mind the law, grant a 'reprieve' by fiat, and please, hold it till after the election...
How convenient.