UPS Plans to Drop Insurance Coverage for Employee Spouses | WABE 90.1 FM

UPS Inc. is planning to drop about 15,000 employee spouses from its health insurance plan.

That’s according to Kaiser Health News.

The organization says it has obtained internal documents from UPS.

According to Kaiser, UPS will not foot the bill for employee spouses if those spouses can get health insurance coverage from their own jobs.

“UPS, in telling its workers, repeatedly cited the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare, and said that part of the reason they could no longer cover working spouses is rising costs associated with the Health Act,” says Kaiser Reporter Jay Hancock.

Hancock reports UPS will save an estimated $60 million per year from dropping coverage for employee spouses.

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