Harvard Professors Who Pushed ObamaCare Now Pissed They Aren't Exempted From It

by JASmius



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For years, Harvard’s experts on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. But those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty, and the professors are in an uproar.

Members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the heart of the 378-year-old university, voted overwhelmingly in November to oppose changes that would require them and thousands of other Harvard employees to pay more for health care. The university says the increases are in part a result of the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act, which many Harvard professors championed.

In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz:



Do "many Harvard professors" get the connection?  Are you kidding?

In Harvard’s health care enrollment guide for 2015, the university said it “must respond to the national trend of rising health care costs, including some driven by health care reform,” otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act. The guide said that Harvard faced “added costs” because of provisions in the health care law that extend coverage for children up to age 26, offer free preventive services like mammograms and colonoscopies and, starting in 2018, add a tax on high-cost insurance, known as the Cadillac tax.

Richard F. Thomas, a Harvard professor of classics and one of the world’s leading authorities on Virgil, called the changes “deplorable, deeply regressive, [and] a sign of the corporatization of the university.” [emphasis added]

Well, "Professor," it's amazing how "corporatized" we all become, individually and collectively, when your whiz-bang, can't-miss, holier-than-thou, paternalistic "We know better than you peasants" Big Government schemes that your ilk claim will solve all our real and imaginary "problems" inevitably blow up in our faces and cost us a fortune in both money and liberty.  It just so happens that in this instance, you and your colleagues were collateral damage.  Or what we peasants prefer to think of as "poetic justice".

If anybody ever needed additional evidence for why our country should not be run out of the Ivy League, you're welcome.