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As a long time employee & contractor, I can tell you that money talks & everything else walks. Benes are here today, & gone tomorrow, especially for lower level employees. And having money deducted from your paycheck sure doesn't seem like a benefit. The really sharp people you want to hire: They already know this! They aren't buying the "free undercoating" scam.

Health insurance premiums have risen every year since I can remember - 30+ years. This particular benefit has been a burden for employers/employees long before Obama.

I have personally heard both employers & employees curse the system. I have seen hundreds of employees suddenly laid off, & left with expensive choices to continue to insure their family. I have seen people who work for the spawn of Satan, but cannot leave their job in Hell because of an ongoing illness of a covered dependent.

This is the system you would perpetuate for some nebulous inducement to new hires? A system that is crumbling from inefficiency & inequity.

In the current consumer-unfriendly system, where privately acquired health insurance is very expensive, the employer has a real (& unfair) advantage over employees. But if widely available, market priced insurance were available to individuals & families, I believe businesses would quickly abandon employer provided insurance.

I have interviewed hundred's of people and almost everyone of those I interview ask if there is health benefits. I like when they ask because it shows me that their health is important to them and we did offer insurance until recently.

We never had increases of 30% annually until after Obama got in office. We had increases before that but it ranged between 2% and tops 6%.

Now with Obamacare we can look forward to either providing an insurance to our employees for about $450 per month or pay a fine of $2,000 a year. I know which one we're taking.