From the Sacramento Bee: UC Davis is phasing out a supplemental subsidy that capped out-of-pocket maximums on its Blue and Gold plan at $1,000 for individuals and $3,000 for families, according to university records and the University Professional and Technical Employees union. UPTE represents technical, healthcare and research workers. Under the change, those ceilings will jump to $3,000 for individuals and $6,000 for families. For Nella, the hike turns an ad celebrating her daughter’s care into a painful irony — calling the shift offensive in an interview with The Sacramento Bee. Nella said absorbing the new out-of-pocket costs will force her to divert money from family savings toward medical bills just to keep her daughter healthy.
“I was really appalled and offended that they would use me and my family in this way only to increase our costs by thousands of dollars after we’ve tried to give back in the ways that we could,” she said. The university said Nella “volunteered to appear with her family in UC Davis Health advertising.” ...
Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article317686770.html.
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