Boeing Obamacare Notices Sting MurrayIn what could be a game changer for the deadlocked Washington Senate race, Boeing notified 90,000 employees, concentrated in huge plants in Washington, that their health premiums would increase next year as the company braces for the impact of President Obama's national health care law.
Citing the need to shift plans to avoid new taxes in the plan, the company will increase annual deductibles for employees' family plans by $300 to $900.
The letters to tens of thousands of Boeing employees in Washington will powerfully reinforce the message from Sen. Patty Murray's Republican challenger, Dino Rossi, that the president's health care law is bad for the state's top employer.
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