Factory employees left without healthcare while company still took funds

If you still think that you want the government out of your way when it comes to health insurance, think of this. You go to work, you see deductions coming out of your pay for your premiums, believe you have coverage, then find out, you don't have it. We hear all the time people saying that people without coverage have only themselves to blame, but never do they mention people like these factory workers, or people with coverage but end up having supposedly covered treatment denied. I really hope you never find out you trusted the wrong people with your life because this is not a matter of deciding your own health, it's about greedy companies deciding who gets to pay and who gets denied.

McCain campaign-stop factory ceases paying health premiums, tells no one
By Daniel Tencer

Published: September 6, 2009
Updated 29 minutes ago


When then-presidential candidate John McCain declared Pennsylvania’s Turbine Airfoil Designs an example of “both the opportunities and the challenges that face our manufacturing base,” he probably had little inkling that one of those “challenges” would be the company’s decision to stop paying the premiums on its employees’ health care — without telling the employees.

Until they received a letter from Capital BlueCross in March of this year informing them that their insurance had been canceled, employees at the aircraft parts manufacturer in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, thought their insurance policies were valid, because their insurance cards continued to be accepted.

But, in fact, TAD had stopped paying health insurance premiums in October, 2008, even as employees continued to see health premiums deducted from their paychecks.
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McCain campaign stop factory ceases paying health premiums