Posted on 09/12/2014 9:43:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As new provisions under Obamacare began to take effect, more and more employers are considering shifting their workers onto private health exchanges—instead of offering the traditional employer-based plans.
A new survey of 1,200 businesses released today by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institutes (PWC) found that one third of employers are now considering shifting their employees onto private health exchanges.
The employers say that new costs and regulations brought on by the Affordable Care Act are prompting them to rethink the way they offer benefits to their employees.
Some companies, for example, are moving toward a model where they would give their workers a fixed sum of money that employees would then put towards a policy of their choice sold on the health exchanges. Researchers say that the exchanges might be the best option for workers and businesses, since it reduces the administrative burden for companies, and offers benefits like consumer decision for workers.
“Early tremors in the market suggest a coming paradigm shift from a business-to-business model toward a business-to-consumer model of purchasing healthcare,” the report said.
Right now, more than 150 million Americans receive health coverage through their employers, but health policy experts and researchers expect that to change in the years ahead as the ACA begins to take hold. For instance, the employer mandate –requiring businesses with 50 or more full-time workers to offer coverage to their full-time employees or pay a stiff penalty--will take effect in January of next year. So employers will have to decide whether to provide direct coverage or search for alternatives.
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What he wants is --- NATIONALIZED HEALTHCARE.
Businesses dumping employees on to the Obamacare exchange is just the first step.
Yup. Step 2 is the private insurance companies pulling out or going under.
Should make all the Obama voters happy.
Absolutely right. No company will be offering it at some point.
The business of business is business. Not healthcare...............
You don’t have to believe, many Dems openly stated it. Harry Reid likened ObamaCare to a starter home. Howard Dean said it would collapse the US healthcare system, necessitating single payer socialized medicine.
right - businesses discover under Obama’s system they are better off dumping Obamacare forcing their employees onto Obamacare as individuals. That has been the Obama strategy from the beginning. It appears he is winning.
NO, this can’t be true.
Someone said, “If you like your coverage, you can keep your coverage!”
Didn’t someone say that? Hmmm, sure thought someone did.
However, Gov't mandates may block appreciable reduction.
“If government would simply get out of the way, insurers could create much more efficient and less expensive systems. “
Then why hadn’t they done it already?
HM0’s, 0bola-style.
Health exchanges that STILL aren’t ready for prime-time from a technical standpoint.
Oh, yeah. THIS is gonna go well.
If it is good business to pay you employees to get their own insurance when the government will fine you for doing so; why wasn’t it good business to pay you employees to get their own insurance when the government wasn’t fining you for doing so? - Just Saying.
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