Here’s the original post in its entirety. Note that there is not one word in there about whether or not an employer must reimburse their employees for refunds they receive from the insurance companies. Read carefully now. It’s not there, I promise you. You know how I know this? I WROTE IT.
And then we get Mr. Hyde in post #5 telling us that … pay attention to the bolded bit …
To which I replied in post #11 … AKA, NOT THE FUCKING OP …
And THAT is the post to which Brickass was referring when he took to insulting my reading habits IN GREAT DEBATES in his post that reads:
Well, it was RaftPeople who taught me to covermy ass.
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Don’t let him get to you like that. It’s just a message board.
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Eh. I know we all are supposed to be above it all and “it’s only pixels on a screen” but to be honest, it’s refreshing to see some fucking passion sometimes. For anything. And the fact that ultimately, it really **is **pixels on a screen, reassures me that Shayna isn’t exactly cutting herself over it. Just showing some good ol’ fashioned internet passion. Nothin’ wrong with that.
Sure. 45 CFR § 158.242(b), relating to recipients of rebates, provides as follows (for clarity, the “policyholder” is the company and a “subscriber” is the individual person covered by the policy.
It goes on to lay out possible rebate options. A company can keep the money, apply it to next year’s premiums, and reduce its own contribution to employee health care, for example, without violating the law:
Well, it does appear that you do live in an echo chamber, a giant cunch shell where all you can hear is the roar of a sea of leftists and liberals. Poke your head out once in a while. Might do you good.
Yes… although even then, there is no requirement to apply it to each subscriber in the amount that they, personally, overpaid. The company can chose to divide the total refund amongst all their subscribers, for example, rather than refund to each person the overage their subscription produced. And more to the point, the company can reduce the percentage it pays.
In other words, if the company covered 50% of your health care premium last year, and gets a refund of $150,000, it can keep that money and apply it to next year’s premiums, and decrease their contribution to 35% in that next year as well. The employee doesn’t see a loss in his paycheck, but the company gets the benefit, not the employee. It’s a crappy little loophole.
I’m enjoying a pizza, a lovely glass of zinfandel and laughing my ass off at Blazing Saddles.
It’s Twue! It’s Twue!
Yeah, so what?
Of course that’s right. But in typical Bricker fashion he’s going to twist it and manipulate it and pretend that it’s just semantics because not every penny is divvied up exactly evenly. The employees do get it back (which was the only claim that was made), but because they don’t get it back in S&H Green Stamps or something, it doesn’t really count and he gets to act like he’s just so fucking superior.
He’s wrong. But he doesn’t care if he can stick one of these § in his reply. That makes him like, super duper more better at reading than libruls.
I guaranfuckingtee you that if I had started a thread titled, “Government overcharges taxpayers and is forced to return $1.3 Billion to citizens,” we’d never hear the end of how evil “The Government” is and how dare they overcharge people, and that’s ONE POINT THREE BILLION WITH A B THAT THEY STOLE FROM PATRIOTIC AMERICANS OBAMA IS THE SUXOR!
But when it’s a corporation ripping off their customers and the government making them do the right thing, well … LOOK! OVER THERE! AN ECHO CHAMBER!
