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...Friday Nov. 27, more than half of Harvard’s security guards may find themselves unable to afford health care coverage for the coming year, due to a sharp increase in the cost of their Blue Cross Blue Shield health plan...
...University currently guarantees part of the cost of employee health premiums. It calculates its contributions based on the lowest-cost health insurance plan available to a given group of employees...
...University subsidy for Blue Cross is equivalent to the cash value of the Pilgrim/HUGHP subsidy. Because it does not correspond to a fixed proportion of the Blue Cross premiums, once the cost of Blue Cross increases, Harvard will only cover about 65 percent of next year’s raised Blue Cross premium...
Malik emphasized that the switch would result in no additional financial burden to the University, as the cost of the current subsidy is equivalent to 85 percent of the Harvard Pilgrim plan’s premium...
...does not help prepare Europe for the future. Indeed, consensus is gathering around a new model, which is neither the unbridled neo-liberalism of the U.S. nor the failsafe job protection of France, Germany and Italy. It's a policy born in Denmark, dubbed "flex security," which keeps the cost of layoffs low for employers and the benefits (including retraining services) high for those laid off. Perhaps both John Maynard Keynes and Ronald Reagan would approve...