But why should the government be involved — companies used to be able to decide for themselves whether or not to offer health insurance to the employees and how much.
Obamacare is mandating what they should cover — such as birthcontrol — and punishes, i.e. taxes them with prohibitively large penalties if they do provide good medical insurance.
The end result of all this is that employers will ultimately stop providing health insurance to their employees. That's exactly how it should be. Companies never really "decided for themselves" whether or not to offer health insurance to their employees. They were given enormous tax incentives to do it, and now the game has changed. It's really that simple.
We are seeing what anyone who dwells in the real world knew would happen years ago. Only an air castle dwelling ignoramus is foolish enough to believe that health care can be fixed by government. What is happening is the equivalent of someone who owns and drives a serviceable vehicle like a Toyota camry which gets him to his desired destination economically and without headaches but thinks that he can turn it into a Rolls Royce limousine by entering it in a demolition derby. We HAD a health care system, what we are heading toward is something that resembles health care in name only. Anyone with, as my late mother used to say,”One eye and a thimbleful of brains”, knew that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act had absolutely nothing to do with either one. When they come up with a Diner Protection and Affordable Picnic Act you will know that starvation awaits us.