Harvard students are responding to the fact that their professors pushed for Obamacare, then rejected the plan when it came to campus.

The Harvard Salient reports.

Harvard’s Healthcare Hypocrisy

At the end of last year, the Harvard faculty voted to reject a set of changes that their employer, the University, made to the health care it provides them. On face, their position was entirely reasonable: the changes will shift more costs to the professors, and no one wants to pay more for the same coverage. What complicated the matter, of course, was politics.

In its report detailing the changes, the University explained that “Harvard, like most employers, must respond to the national trend of rising health care costs, including some driven by health care reform.” Of course, many of those costs—the report specifically mentions “additional taxes and fees that began in 2012, and are ongoing” as well as “a potential 40% excise tax on the value of health benefits exceeding certain thresholds”—improve neither quantity nor quality of care; rather, they raise the amount of money people must pay to keep receiving the healthcare they had before. In other words, Harvard professors will be paying big, out of pocket, for the “Affordable Care” pushed by the Obama Administration.

And there’s the problem: in theory, Harvard professors are big supporters of Obamacare. Harvard University employees have donated over $1.5 million to Barack Obama since he began to run for President, and “universal health care” has always been part of his platform. Moreover, they seem to love him, his party, and his politics now as much as ever. In October 2014, Obama stated that “every single one of” his policies was “on the ballot” in the midterm elections, including his “cornerstone”: health care reform. Our faculty and staff voiced their approval, donating over $870,000 directly to the Democrats in the 2014 election cycle. Our teachers and administrators must have liked the sound of “cost-sharing” before they had to participate in it; they have had years to weigh the Affordable Care Act and its consequences, and they have supported it at every turn.