Tell me if it's Obamacare, or employer hijinx

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Tell me if it's Obamacare, or employer hijinx

astr0man: Feb 21, 2007; hollyeo deuroga

Buried alive posted:

I want to make sure I understand this correctly..

Basically, your ER said "You can sign up with us or opt out." You chose to opt out, but have the funds go towards your wife's insurance. So you're getting paid (hypothetically) $1000.00 bi-weekly. They take 120 of that and put it towards your wife's insurance. They then said that 'sorry, can't do that anymore' and now you're only getting paid $880 bi-weekly and they blamed it on the ACA.

It sounded to me more like his pay is $1000, and normally the company would pay $xx on top of that for his healthcare benefits if he got them through his employer. Since he did originally opted out he got an extra $120 on top of his $1000 as an incentive to get his own private healthcare (this is not unusual since it probably costs his employer more than $120 for whatever healthcare they provide). At some point his employer changed the requirement to be able to opt-out from 36 hours to 40 so now he just doesn't get the $120 bonus but still gets his $1000 base paycheck.

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