Posted on 05/08/2010 6:51:55 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing
AT&T paid about $2.4 billion last year to cover medical costs of its 283,000 active workers, according to one document.
If the company were to push all those workers onto subsidized exchanges, AT&T estimated, it would only have to pay an annual penalty of $600 million, or $2,000 a worker.
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Shocked? The guys who designed this...knew this from months ago. Every piece of this has a consequence tied to it and moves you to plan B down the road in five years.
Funny how the word employee isn’t used much any more? I use it when I can.
This also serves to gin up more hatred for “greedy, evil corporations’ for taking away benefits in order to save money — and, in some cases, survive.
That makes the gubbermint look more kind and benevolent in giving everyone their “free” healthcare.
Oh, thank you, thank you for taking care of us!
(barf)
Ask any of the cool-aid drinking idiots who supported this disastrous HCR bill if they really believe their nanny state government will provide the same quality and access to health care with the $8,000 being brought in vs. what the individual received under his/her employer. If their answer is yes, then encourage them to push for their employer opt out of employee subsidized health insurance.
Eff these people, I say defy the friggin bastards that are destroying this country!
THEY CAN'T PUT US ALL IN JAIL!
One of the conditions the IMF gave to Greece with the ‘bailout’ was to curtail the Greek government provided health care system.
Exactly. Kill private insurance and move to the public option. The public will be clamoring for it as they see their premiums rise. Business has always wanted to get rid of the burden of health care.
A co-worker yesterday told me that in the health care bill is a requirement that when a private person pays any small business or another private person $600 or more that the buyer is required to file a 1099 on the seller.
Has anyone else heard about this?
If this is true...I just see it as more enslavement....we are tax paying units to these people.
“Big firms find ending health insurance and paying fines may be cheaper.”
THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF OBAMACARE.
Of course the democrat party media will continue to cover-up and lie.
Hit em where it hurts, in their wallets!
“The best thing an employer can do is to NOT hire anybody even remotely supportive of this regime.”
Obama supporters don’t work. They are professional parasites sucking off government (taxpayer) money one way or another. They don’t pay taxes.
“This is one of the concerns that Republicans had, that these kinds of plans would drive private sector plans out of business,”
As large and small corporations drop their employee health care coverage and opt for the penalties while relegating their employees to the government sponsored exchanges, the remaining conventional private insurance pools will contract. Federal coverage mandates and a shrinking pool will drive up costs of the remaining conventional private group plans. Individual plans will become prohibitively expensive and not worth purchasing.
We have got to push back at the state level and keep up the pressure in the courts.
I wonder if anyone really believes that AT&T would say otherwise. Even more than the money the paperwork overhead involved with Obamacare will probably drive employers of offering health care insurance. This is not an unintended consequence.
The private insurers will be driven out of business by market forces of this new legislation. It will be cheaper to pay the fine rather than purchase insurance and then sign up for the insurance only after the need arises. Since the legislation mandates they accept all applicants without pre-condition exclusion at a mandated premium they will fold in a hurry. The economic model will not work!
Therefore everyone will be forced to the government plan and viola’ - they have one-payor system which is the socialist goal...deviously brilliant, but devestating for the american populace. A two-tiered system will evolve (unless they legislate against that as Hillary tried to do) whereby cash-paying patients will get the care and treatments in timely manner and all others get DMV (take-a-number-and wait) care! It will not be a pretty site if and when the american people wake up and realize what socialism has wrought. However, as in Europe (see Greece today) it will be too late.
Wake up America - 11/2/2010 may be your last hope!
The only plus that these businesses have now is that they can control what they can of costs by changing and bidding out their health plans with different companies. When Mr Bammy and his friends get a hold of it, it will be "pucker up, buttercup..", just like the rest of us.
If we all don't fight this...man, woman, company, employer, employee...we are all up the creek..
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