Awesome: your salary to determine how much you pay for health care

Incredible. The Charlotte Observer reports that your salary may soon determine how much you pay for health care.

At Bank of America, a new way to pay for health insurance

Salaries will determine bank workers' contribution to medical insurance costs. Some could pay less in 2011.

At Bank of America Corp. next year, how much employees make will determine how much they pay for health insurance.

The Charlotte bank has been informing its U.S. employees about the new approach, which means lower-paid workers will pay less and higher-paid ones will pay more for their coverage in 2011. Employees select their health care plans for next year in October.

Salary-tiered health insurance programs are still an "emerging trend," but an increasing number of companies are adopting this approach, human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates found last year. Less than 15 percent of employers vary employee contributions based on pay, according to the firm's 2010 database of 2,307 plans.

...Sapp, the Bank of America spokesman, declined to say whether the new approach was motivated by the health care law signed this year by President Barack Obama, but she said the bank is monitoring and evaluating any necessary changes.

Last month, the bank announced that it will expand health insurance coverage to employees' dependents up to age 26, ahead of a new government requirement...

This is the start of something big. Stalin big.