Posted on 05/12/2014 12:40:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A left-leaning think tank whose research is often taken seriously by backers of the health-care overhaul has published a paper suggesting the administration should scrap the health law’s requirement that employers offer coverage or pay a penalty.
“Why Don’t We Just Get Rid of the Employer Mandate?”, by three researchers at the Urban Institute, argues that the requirement won’t lead to many more people gaining coverage, since most firms that don’t currently offer benefits to all their workers will opt for the penalty, and most firms that already voluntarily offer benefits will want to carry on doing so.
The researchers say that the penalty isn’t necessary to stop employers from dumping their workers now that they can get coverage other ways. They reason that workers will still consider employer insurance attractive, and so employers will conclude that it’s worth providing because tax breaks on employee benefits offset some of the cost of providing them.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...
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If the minimum wage increase costs no jobs, or no good jobs, then why would this? Dems...
Why not just repeal the whole thing and deregulate health care?
uhhh....because a lot of employers can no longer purchase the insurance they can AFFORD to buy, only the insurance that Obama TELLS them they can buy.
Chaching! There is the money shot!
Dump the employer ‘mandate’ (extortion?). Push EVERYONE to the exchanges. That removes the next roadblock to single-payer, which has been the goal ALL ALONG with this POS.
The exchanges will lead to coverages impossible to afford (between premiums, deductibles, and co-pays), which will mean declining participation, huge premium increases, and then the collapse.
Fedgov rides in on a wave of (uninformed) voter outrage and ‘rescues’ us, once again, with single-payer, fully nationalized health ‘care’.
Disgusting. Sickening. And...predictable.
The tree of liberty remains drought-stricken.
I thought it was settled law. The law of the land. Time to move on.
At least they are acknowledging that something is definitely wrong with this law.
LA Times calls the Urban League a “middle-of-the-road think tank”.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-employer-mandate-20140512-column.html
To late for me. I will lose my insurance at the end of this year, probably after the election. I worked 30 years to get it when retired and paid for by my company. Once it is canceled, I won’t be getting it back from my company,...I retired. I found this out through an 8-k given by ATT to JP Morgan bank. The company seems to know nothing about it and the union has never heard of it. Yet there it is, a required document from ATT to get their stock rated. I’m screwed.
I am truly sorry to hear that. My house already took a hit in income due directly from Obamacare.
I've noticed that the left (esp. Obama) is afflicted with Muenchausen syndrome by proxy. America is the targeted victim of the abuse.
"Münchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP or MBP) is a term that is used to describe a behavior pattern in which a caregiver deliberately exaggerates, fabricates, and/or induces physical, psychological, behavioral, and/or mental health problems in those who are in their care.[1] With deception at its core, this behavior is an elusive, potentially lethal, and frequently misunderstood form of child abuse[2] or medical neglect[3] that has been difficult to define, detect, and confirm.
>>> "The primary distinguishing feature that differentiates MSbP from "typical" physical child abuse is the degree of premeditation involved. Whereas most physical abuse entails lashing out at a child in response to some behavior (e.g. crying, bedwetting, spilling food), assaults on the MSbP victim tend to be unprovoked and planned.[9]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchausen_syndrome_by_proxy
It goes on and on. Intentional acts that make America sick (e.g. ObamaCARE) are being inflicted by the dedicated victim advocates, the savior parents, the nanny state attention 'hos.
BAIT_AND_SWITCH_AND_BAIT_AND_SWITCH_PING!
What a great observation, appropriate and timely.
Timely given that the TOTALLY BOGUS and UNSUPPORTED MSbP charge leveled at Justina Pelletier’s parents.
Which is, h’mmm, even more interesting. Look what Massachusettstan does to anyone accused of MSbP. Any chance ... ?? (We look for God’s Justice.)
Because that answer is too simple, straight-forward, and makes too much sense ... ?
Just a guess. :/
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