Obamacare is causing California Vocations, a nonprofit that supports adults with developmental disabilities, to drop insurance for their employees KRCR-CA reports:
Ninety employees of California Vocations, a state-funded nonprofit that supports adults with developmental disabilities, learned that their insurance with Blue Shield will be terminated at the end of the year.
California Vocations Executive Director Bob Irvine said it’s been frustrating for the organization and its employees.
Irvine said the organization's board of directors cancelled its policies because the new Obamacare regulations force it to purchase more expensive policies it simply can not afford.
"That would have been another 250,000 dollars" said Irvine.
Instead, it's cheaper to pay a 100,000 dollar per year fine for not providing health care insurance, saving the company $150,000 by canceling the policy.
Employees are left to fend for themselves.
"They were comfortable with the plan they have," said Irvine. "I think the biggest thing they're working through now is the fear of not knowing if their doctor is going to be covered on the plan, not knowing if they types of medical care are covered, not knowing if their prescriptions are covered under the plan."
Off camera, many employees said that they're worried and frustrated by what's happened. [...]