North Carolina universities are announcing cutbacks as they grapple with higher costs due to Obamacare. It’s just more fallout from U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan’s (D-NC) deciding 60th vote for the passage of Obamacare.
Leaders of the state’s 17-campus UNC System are asking lawmakers for permission to create its own pilot health care program. Beginning next year, about 7,000 part-time workers will be eligible for health benefits under the Affordable Care Act. Part-time UNC System employees who work 30 hours or more are eligible for health benefits beginning next year.In 2009, Hagan stood on the Senate floor and declared that ObamaCare was needed to bring down costs. Just like she falsely promised that North Carolinians could keep their insurance under ObamaCare, the lower costs Senator Hagan promised haven’t materialized either. Not only are these rising costs hurting workers and their families, they’re harming higher education in North Carolina.On Thursday, the Board of Governors discussed the challenges with the state’s current health plan that would require all of 17 colleges in the system to pay about $5,400 for each worker’s healthcare plan. It would cost about $45 million if the UNC System had to provide health care coverage under the current state health plan.
“There’s no money provided to us or to state agencies to cover this cost,” said Charles Perusse, chief operating officer of the UNC System. “We’re just supposed to absorb it within our budget.”
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“Inclusive of cutting some of those employees, reducing their hours of work to ensure that we’re able to meet within the cost options available to us our commitment to support our employees,” said Martin.
It is too bad that when given every chance to help NC voters, Kay Hagan still sticks to her history of lies about Obamacare.