Duh! That’s why so many businesses WANTED Obamacare.
They want to dump their employees on the exchanges.
A story here to tell.
My brother works for an IT-related company in the south. The company is very successful but medium-sized....been around for twenty-odd years.
They had an interesting healthcare deal. The company had a bucket of money. They hired some folks to act as a middleman in the local area. They found the hospitals and doctor networks, then guided every employee and family member to those, and the bills were sent to the middleman, who took the money out of the company’s bucket of cash.
No insurance company in the middle of this. Year to year....everything changed and nothing was absolutely sure, but the company saved millions over health insurance. Everyone was extremely happy over the deal. They never saw any bills, or felt any hassle with paperwork.
Well, it’s an interesting thing. This method of running cheap reasonable healthcare....was dissolved by the Affordable Healthcare Act. Perhaps on purpose, and to force everyone to play health insurance company instead.
The CEO held a meeting. Quietly discussed options, and then held an audience with the whole company...roughly a thousand employees. They’d pay the tax and just say adios to health care via the company. They weren’t going to eat up cash for the pleasure of helping insurance companies profit. Employees sat there more in shock....having never understood the mechanism or why their care was cheaper than anyone else in the local community. Anger and frustration have brewed on this for the past year since it was announced.
The President’s change of order? The company is mostly prepared to dissolve their old deal in late December. There’s zero chance that they’d return to ‘normal’.
I would be humble and say that there are people within this whole gimmick of construction....who have never worked insurance or business in their life. They signed up to do a plumbing job, when they knew nothing about plumbing. They’ve screwed over innocent people, and by spring of 2014...some folks are going to want names, and court cases started. Whoever convinced the President and his staff that this would all work....have done a great injustice to the nation itself. If this were Japan....the Premier would resign. If this were France, the President would accept responsibility, resign, and call for new elections. Here? It’s hard to say if anything will happen.