Mattie Duppler, budget and regulatory policy director at Americans for Tax Reform, was on The Daily Rundown on MSNBC this morning. She joined Luis Miranda and Shira Toeplitz for a discussion of President Obama’s “college affordability” speech.
Thanks to Obamacare, UPS is the newest company to end health benefits for spouses. Steven Greenhouse of CNBC noted that 34 (The letter now has 40 signers) conservative activists have signed the Obamacare Repeal Coalition letter for a 1-year delay of Obamacare provisions:
“United Parcel Service has told its white-collar employees that it will stop providing health care coverage to their spouses who can obtain coverage through their own employers, joining an increasing number of companies that are restricting or eliminating spousal health benefits.
U.P.S., the world's largest package delivery company, said its decision was prompted in part by "costs associated with" the federal health care law that is commonly called Obamacare.”