Posted on 09/06/2014 6:33:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Fox News is reporting that employer-provided health care plans may be a thing of the past.
Former Obama health adviser Zeke Emanuel predicted that Obamacare will replace 80 percent of employer-provided health plans will disappear in 10 years.
Its going to actually be better for people. Theyll have more choice, Emanuel said. Most people who work for an employer and get their coverage through an employer do not have choice.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
They may get away with it in hard times, but most employers, of which I am one, do not want their best employees pissed off at them.
The long term GOP plan is to give the health tax deduction the employer now gets to the employee in the form of a tax credit.
Then the employee can use that money to buy insurance on the open market.
Consumer driven health care will drive costs down IMO.
Now I can't find a doctor to sew a gash for $0.25 per stitch... not even the barber... or a vet. Set a fracture... I am not paying anymore than $20 for that. No, I do not want a CAT scan... I am paying for this.
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