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Posted: Jul 27, 2013
in California won't be provided health insurance - they will get their hours cut instead.This just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?
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You kind of have to feel sorry for.... - just saying
[ In Reply To ..]individuals who 'mine' stories for anything remotely negative toward Obama and/or his policies.
I wonder if those employees will find it "remotely" negative. - (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]I almost can't wait for this monstrosity to be in full swing.
FYI, I didn't 'mine' for it. My friend in Calif sent it to me - in an email. - Abby
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so there at least two people who don't understand - how businesses work
[ In Reply To ..]this has nothing to do with obamacare. This is how businesses operate.
Of course - to make money - and it has everything to do with - Obamadoesn'tcare.
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You being the first - and your shadow puppet the second
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That's so outrageously silly I haven't even bothered - to look up a refute. Come on! If
[ In Reply To ..]you read an e-mail claiming the sign-up papers were coated with poison that would kill half of anyone handling them -- you wouldn't believe that, I'm sure.
Just maybe up your skepticism level when you're reading weird-sounding e-mails and articles? Fact checking is the smart thing to do. The internet with swarming with this nonsense.
DH gets forwarded a bunch of these things from friends and was just telling me about one (passing on a joke over breakfast) where Obama had threatened 14 state governors with arrest for arming state forces. Like governors of 14 states (!) would make quite such easy victims. Like every national newspaper and TV station wouldn't be talking about nothing but. These are some pretty powerful people here, BTW--no explanation offered on how any president would manage to carry this out without nationwide civil war...:)
It wasn't a joke email. She lives there. I've provided a link - for you. (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]Sheesh
Abby, every one of these part-time workers is - eligible for insurance directly--no NEED to
[ In Reply To ..]get it through an employer. When they leave this temporary job, their insurance goes with them. The way it should, instead of the bad old days.
BTW, and no little matter--most, and probably all, of them will qualify for premium discounts based on relatively low incomes. There's a sliding scale that will apply--the lower the income, the higher the discount.
This is a newspaper article, not a propaganda e-mail as I imagined, but this article makes a big deal out of something that just isn't--that these call-center employees won't get insured through their temporary employer. To me that's good. I can't wait to be able to buy my own insurance directly and get my employer out of my personal business. Nuance has been doing a lousy job lately anyway. My policy is terrible.
Bottom line, though, the purpose of healthcare reform is to get good healthcare for everyone at all levels of society, and that very specifically includes those with low incomes, temporary jobs, part time jobs, etc. All of us.
(It's also about controlling runaway healthcare cost inflation, those yearly premium increases that have been getting bigger and bigger each year for the past 30 years, but that's another thread.)
******* - My state suspended taking - applications from the lower income
[ In Reply To ..]6 months ago...***********
Take that up with your state and go file - with the federal government. nm
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Well then, maybe you would find the newspaper report on this - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]to be more accurate?
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Concord: Half of call center jobs will be part-time
By Matthias Gafni
Contra Costa Times
POSTED: 07/25/2013 05:59:00 PM PDT
UPDATED: 07/25/2013 06:22:09 PM PDT
CONCORD -- Earlier this year, Contra Costa County won the right to run a health care call center, where workers will answer questions to help implement the president's Affordable Care Act. Area politicians called the 200-plus jobs it would bring to the region an economic coup.
Now, with two months to go before the Concord operation opens to serve the public, information has surfaced that about half the jobs are part-time, with no health benefits -- a stinging disappointment to workers and local politicians who believed the positions would be full-time.
The Contra Costa County supervisor whose district includes the call center called the whole hiring process -- which attracted about 7,000 applicants -- a "comedy of errors."
"The battle for the call center was over jobs with good working wages and benefits; I never dreamed they would be part-time," said Karen Mitchoff, who has heard from complaining constituents and expressed her "extreme displeasure with how it was handled" to call center supervisors.
One recent hire, who last week learned the job would be part-time, said the new "intermittent" employees feel like they've been used as a political tool, and many now regret applying for the positions.
"What's really ironic is working for a call center and trying to help people get health care, but we can't afford it ourselves," said the worker, who asked for anonymity out of fear of losing the job. The county says it had been telling the public and supervisors all along that some positions would be full-time and some part-time. However, portions of staff reports list all 204 jobs as full-time, and a job posting said the same.
It's the latest controversy involving the call center, one of three created statewide to help citizens enroll in various new health care options under President Obama's Affordable Care Act when it goes live at the start of next year.
Contra Costa was selected early on by the state to run the call center, but the deal mandated the county run the operation itself, with state funding, or lose it to another county. Once Contra Costa secured the call center, Concord and Richmond battled for the right to host it. Unions nearly derailed the project before some last-minute wrangling to ensure workers weren't transferred needlessly and would receive appropriate benefits.
The state budget allows for 180 customer service agents, half of them part-time, when the call center opens Oct. 1, said Contra Costa Deputy County Administrator Theresa Speiker. The full-time employees, she said, will handle the core 40-hour work week, while the part-timers will handle the extended hours. For the first three months, the call center at 2500 Bates Ave., off Highway 4 and Port Chicago Highway, will be open 72 hours a week. After that, it drops to 59 hours a week.
"In open session and in (staff reports) we've been pretty clear that not all will be full-time jobs," Speiker said.
More here: http://www.contracostatimes.com/breaking-news/ci_23733818/concord-half-call-center-jobs-will-be-part?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com
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