United Parcel Service, one of the biggest U.S. employers, plans to drop health insurance coverage for about 15,000 working spouses of white-collar employees to curtail rising costs.
Many spouses in the U.S. workforce will have access to employer-provided insurance under President Barack Obama's health care-system overhaul, and UPS will remove them from its coverage, according to a copy of a memo to employees first published online by Kaiser Health News. Spouses who don't work or lack employer-provided benefits will still be eligible at Atlanta-based UPS, according to the memo.
