Jet Blue benefits, healthcare cost?

[goingflying]

Just curious how much the healthcare costs are per month, some of the options, and when they start. Have a growing family and need good healthcare?

Thanks, Happy Holidays

 

[Blue Dude]

Incoming!

 

[Caveman]

Like most jobs rising health care cost is a big issue at JetBlue. We are no worse or no better than most companies as far as cost sharing goes and it isn't pretty. Some pay less than we do and in some cases a lot less. Others pay more, sometimes a lot more. If you compare us only to other airlines we're probably a little worse than most. Compared to all big companies we're probably in the middle of the pack. Any moment now someone will post anecdotal evidence of how little someone else has to pay somewhere else and how screwed up B6 is. It certainly could be better. No question. However, we aren't really any different from most places to work.

I don't have the numbers in front of me but as I recall the plan most people pick costs in the neighborhood of $150-200 per paycheck for a family plan. There's also copays and deductables involved. If you have a family member with ongoing medical issues you're going to spend some money. For normal preventative medicine, injuries, colds, flu etc it's not too bad.

In short it's not horrible, but it isn't good either. YMMV.

 

[johnsonrod]

Who cares? It's just a matter of time. Thanks to Barry Obama, we'll all be standing in lines outside our local hospitals praying that at least one bed is left unoccupied. JB won't subidize you as their healthcare costs escalate - it will just be easier to pay the fine and let everyone roll-off onto the Government list (watch out for the DEATH PANELS!). There won't be any more waivers (like the one McDonalds and Boeing just got) left. But at least Obama supports the unions....

Have fun with that...

 

[Smarta$$]

Who cares? It's just a matter of time. Thanks to Barry Obama, we'll all be standing in lines outside our local hospitals praying that at least one bed is left unoccupied. JB won't subidize you as their healthcare costs escalate - it will just be easier to pay the fine and let everyone roll-off onto the Government list (watch out for the DEATH PANELS!). There won't be any more waivers (like the one McDonalds and Boeing just got) left. But at least Obama supports the unions....

Have fun with that...

How much was fine before? Was it zero? Were employers required to provide insurance?

So... the fine was zero, and they were not required to provide insurance, and your argument is valid how????

You really are not very smart are you.

 

[Hair-on-Fire]

Who cares? It's just a matter of time. Thanks to Barry Obama, we'll all be standing in lines outside our local hospitals praying that at least one bed is left unoccupied. JB won't subidize you as their healthcare costs escalate - it will just be easier to pay the fine and let everyone roll-off onto the Government list (watch out for the DEATH PANELS!). There won't be any more waivers (like the one McDonalds and Boeing just got) left. But at least Obama supports the unions....

Have fun with that...

what an angry little man

 

[Dizel8]

Death Panels, those are currently provided by the Republicans in Arizona, they deem transplants to be not cost effective.

Sorry, went of tangent!

 

[Dooker]

Yeah, man, I can't believe what a jerk Obama is, trying to make it so you're not financially ruined if you lose your job and your health benefits and you or somebody in your family is dumb enough to get sick.

Talk about un-American.

 

[Smarta$$]

Death Panels, those are currently provided by the Republicans in Arizona, they deem transplants to be not cost effective.

Sorry, went of tangent!

Was thinking the same thing.

 

[Splert]

Death Panels, those are currently provided by the Republicans in Arizona, they deem transplants to be not cost effective.

Sorry, went of tangent!

Get used to it.

When the Government controls the health care dollar the these issues become political footballs.

Arizona just like all other state are downing in Medicaid (not medicare) mandates from the Feds. Obamacare just made it worse with the State responisbile for buying in residents within 300% of the poverty level into the Medicaid program

So when the budget is underwater what do your want to cut?

Remember there are no greedy insurance companies driving up the costs in Medicaid program.

You make the call.