No. Discount plans not allowed. So, companies will crunch the numbers, see which is cheaper insurance or the penalty, and do that.
Bottom line, LOTS of companies will just opt to pay the penalty. Dumping people into the Medicaid pool.
This is a FEATURE not a BUG. The plan is to collapse private insurance in order to get people to WANT Government Single Payor .
>> “Bottom line, LOTS of companies will just opt to pay the penalty.” <<
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That is what O-bummah and the Rats are counting on; tons of easy money to sponsor more tyranny.
This is a FEATURE not a BUG. The plan is to collapse private insurance in order to get people to WANT Government Single Payor .
Yep. Single payer administered by a few of the old insurance companies. Those companies will glady kickback payola to the dem party to keep their fingers in the pie. And marxists will want the insurance company brands to create a veneer of private ownership in health care.
Bottom line, LOTS of companies will just opt to pay the penalty. Dumping people into the Medicaid pool.
And here is where things really get fun, if the company says "screw it" and stops offering benefits, or accepts the fee *which goes up exponentially year after year*, what is often not said, is that the EMPLOYEE is still MANDATED to go get insurance of their own, either through an exchange, or through an individual policy, and it must be obamacare approved policy. If they dont have the policy, when they do their taxes, they will get fined for it, and like the company, the fine raises exponentially year after year.
The second kicker, is that initially the employee fine/tax is very low, so they could skip year one or two if they were young and fairly healthy, because there is no denying anyone insurance now. They could pay a fine for the first two years, way cheaper than the policy and then literally purchase a policy on the way to the hospital after finding out they need their appendix out.
Grrrrrr