Washington Post moves employees to high-deductible health insurance plans

[Anya Ristow]

More favorable coverage of Bernie Sanders to follow?

the health plan that two-thirds of Post employees have now—the Aetna Health Fund—is going away (and your reserve Health Fund monies will not roll over)

 

[Fionalein]

Wasn't the Post anti Trump? Is Bezos ruining the health plan of his own employees just to prove a point to the Trumpster who will not understand such subtleties anyways?

Who am I fooling, it is Bezos, aka Mr. Amazon, ... as if that guy was known for caring about the personal health of his employees...

 

[Cristalle]

Plutocrats are proving every day why we need Medicare for All. All the small thinkers crying about preserving choice of mafia middlemen won't acknowledge that these people didn't have any choice.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

There's a reason the cannibal parasitic worms in Charlie Stross's novel "Neptune's Brood" are called Bezos Worms.

 

[Summer Haas]

Is it just me or does Bezos look more and more like Dr. Evil every day?

 

[Soen Eber]

Well, the Post buys ink by the barrel and is connected to all the major mainstream media. There's bound to be a LOT more press about health insurance.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I can only hope that this is a stunt to bring national attention to just how broken our health insurance system is.

 

[Clara D.]

I can only hope that this is a stunt to bring national attention to just how broken our health insurance system is.

Well, it's Bezos, so yes it's a publicity "stunt," but he could give a shit less about the actual impact.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Sadly, The Washington Post is probably the best mainstream news outlet there is in the US. There are certainly many outlets that are much better such as The Nation or The Tampa Bay Times but they aren't mainstream.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Plutocrats are proving every day why we need Medicare for All. All the small thinkers crying about preserving choice of mafia middlemen won't acknowledge that these people didn't have any choice.

What would be great is the same health plan for everyone. Does anyone think it would not be the best plan possible if high level politicians and their families were going to be subjected to the same terms?