Posted on 05/02/2014 4:55:16 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Affordable Care Act could save some of America’s largest corporations hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, according to a market analyst group.
According to a report by S&P Capital IQ released Thursday, S&P 500 companies will likely move their employees from employer-provided health insurance plans to the healthcare exchanges under the Affordable Care Act, saving employers nearly $700 billion through the year 2025. If current healthcare inflation stays constant, those savings could be greater than $800 billion, researchers found.
Corporations are expected to start out by dropping low-wage and part-time workers from their employer insurance plans since they are able to reap the benefits of government tax subsidies under ObamaCare, leading them to pick up new plans under the healthcare law. Eventually, the burden of healthcare coverage will shift from employers to employees.
“Neither lawmakers nor the White House originally anticipated the idea that the ACA could provide corporations with an enormous subsidy to earnings,” say authors of the report. “However, once a few notable companies start to depart from their traditional approach to health care benefits, it's likely that a substantial number of firms could quickly follow suit.”
As some Republicans have softened their tone on repealing the new healthcare law before the November elections, authors of the report say the political battle may shift to try fix it by making it more market-oriented, increasing coverage options and updating federal regulations.
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This is utter nonsense, but exactly the reason
the backstabber RAT Willard Romney imposed RomneyCARE,
to throw workers costs ..... onto the taxpayer.
Yep. Welfare for the biggest businesses. And people wonder why big corporations backed ZEro.
This is just another way of saying Ocare will end up costing employees hundred of billions of additional dollars.
Really? They didn't anticipate that companies would see an opportunity to shift tremendous expenses from their backs?
Effective pay cuts coming....
As I said all the way back in 2010 ... The Republican Party will never repeal ObamaCare because the whole purpose of it is to get employers out of the business of providing medical insurance for their employees. Everyone in Washington is on the same page on this one, despite the political grandstanding going on.
“Transfer costs” would be more accurate than “save.”
and before long American taxpayers.....wonder who most of these low-wage/part-time workers who'll watch their costs rise voted for the past two presidential election??
“Neither lawmakers nor the White House originally anticipated the idea that the ACA could provide corporations with an enormous subsidy to earnings,” say authors of the report.”
“Really? They didn’t anticipate that companies would see an opportunity to shift tremendous expenses from their backs? “
you said it before I had a chance to. they must think we are friggin retards.
Refusing to actually provide medical care can “save” Billions of dollars at the expense of Millions of lives!
An insurance card is NOT “healthcare”!!!
Exactly.....during our company’s Open Enrollment last year it became obvious that:
1) The govermnent wants to run healthcare
and
2)Large companies are very willing to hand it over to the government because it’s expensive, time consuming and complicated to manage
Not surprising....unfortunately
The cost is being shifted to the biggest business of all, Gov Inc.
It's the citizen/worker with no sense of independence and liberty who wants the government to take it over. I suspect most companies don't give a damn one way or another.
Some employees will think it’s a good deal, the employer will give them the money for their part of the insurance, and the federal government picks up the rest of the tab.
But when they get older and ready to retire, their pension won’t include insurance that picks up what Medicare don’t cover, and their premiums will skyrocket.
Retire early? Forget about that, you’ll have no insurance.
Young singles and childless couples hardest hit.
How’s the Hopey Changey thing workin’ out for ya?
FINALLY. The real reason we have Obamacare and why the Pubbies say it is here to stay. Those Cray computers had this thing figured out during the Clinton Administration.
So what? Once Jeb Bush is elected president he’s going to work with Mitch McConnell to repeal the entire thing! /s
>>It’s not “welfare” for large businesses at all. Giving them an outlet to eliminate a cost that they were never obligated to incur in the first place isn’t a bad thing.
That “employer-paid” healthcare is a part of a worker’s compensation package, just like the cost of vacation and the actual cost of wages. When an employer is deciding how much to pay an employee, they look at the total cost and not just the salary.
So, if a worker makes $30/hr and another $15/hr in benefits, the total cost (and total compensation) is $45/hr. Giving businesses a way to shift $13/hr of that “cost” is another way of saying that they are cutting the compensation by $13/hr. Will they give that $13/hr to the employee to maintain the level of his compensation (since I doubt his work load will be reduced) or pocket it as profits? We all know the answer to that.
This was a brilliant move by the Progressives, knowing that the greed of the corporations will cause millions of loyal Conservatives to have their compensation cut by 20% or more, and then those workers will decide that they have to vote with the Progs so they can get some of that lost compensation back from the government in the form of subsidies.
It will be the destruction of the petit bourgeois (i.e. working middle class) that Marx says must be done to create the proper split between the labor class and the capital class.
Some employees will think it’s a good deal, the employer will give them the money for their part of the insurance, and the federal government picks up the rest of the tab.
This just happened to a friend of ours. He is retired but his wife is still working and her employer gives X amount of $ to her to help with health insurance. They had a castastrophic plan that cost $367 ( or thereabouts) a month. Got cancelled under Obamacare. Every policy they checked was waaaaaay expensive. They finally used CoveredCa to get an $1100 a mnth policy that costs them almost $400 amnth after subsidies. Their coverage for the new Obamacare policy is less than their catastrophic policy and costs almost triple the price without subsidies!!!
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