More fallout from the health care bill

Doctors withdrawing from the program, discovering certain children are NOT covered by the program, assessing tanning salons 10% of all sales, and realizing that congressional staffers exempted themselves from the bill....and we only just opened it up. And insurance is going to cost more? But we were promised.....

However, due to the varying effective dates included in the legislation, we expect that Verizon’s costs will increase in the short-term. These cost increases are primarily driven by two provisions.

The first is a provision that affects the Medicare Part D subsidy for prescription drug coverage. Because Verizon offers retiree prescription drug coverage today, the government provides a 28 percent subsidy to help offset the financial burden of offering that coverage.