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TheHeretic -> Obamacare = Fewer people with health insurance??? (8/24/2011 6:48:43 PM)
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Survey: Almost 10% of employers may end health insurance
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NDIANAPOLIS – Nearly one in 10 midsize or large employers expects to stop offering health coverage to workers once federal insurance exchanges start in 2014, according to a survey from a large benefits consultant.
Towers Watson also found in a survey completed last month that an additional 20% of companies are unsure about what they will do.
Another big benefits consultant, Mercer, found in a June survey of large and smaller employers that 8% are either "likely" or "very likely" to end health benefits once the exchanges start.
One theory floating around about why nobody cares what's in Obamacare, why we had to pass it to find out what was in it, is that it isn't intended to fix anything. That's the theory that holds that whole point of this round of reform was to completely monkey-wrench the system, to cause even greater problems for a greater number of people, so a future liberal administration can then "fix it." They'd do that with either single-payer (which I think is a shitty idea) or actually nationalize healthcare (where I have a number of questions that need to be answered before I get on board). With this theory comes a requirement that the liberals are so convinced of the justness of their cause that they are willing to deliberately and dramatically increase the misery of the people, so they can be the rescuers later.
If this theory is accurate, then it looks like we are off to a roaring start.
The other theory is the old truth that the path of good intentions leads straight to hell, and the Democrats are too stupid to ever learn the law of unintended consequences, no matter how many times something blows up in their collective face.
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