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Did anyone expect the increase of employer insurance because of Obamacare?
"Here’s what’s startling: employer-sponsored insurance—not Medicaid or the exchanges—drove the net reduction in uninsured. An estimated 8.2 million took up employer-sponsored plans, and most of them were previously uninsured. I can’t overstate how stunning this finding is if it’s true;"
@Rick
The goal of the employer mandate is to prevent employers from cancelling their employee's insurance and forcing the employees onto the Exchanges. That is why the Employer mandate only applies if an employee uses the tax credits in the new law to buy their insurance on the exchange. It affects only a few companies. If you want to prevent a transition to a single payer system, you need this in place.
So what if the employer mandate forces Sam's Club to get insurance for their employees? Will they get less competitive against CostCo who does offer insurance for its employees? The same employer mandate was implemented in the state of MA and no widespead adverse effects occurred.
@Mark
Eveyone expected an increase in the individual market, not the Employer insurance market.
@Kinkade 0001
Can you give an example?
8 Answers
- LeoLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
What the report illustrated more than anything else is how complex this subject is, too complex to jump to conclusions about the ACA's success or failure, which is what the right seems to want to do.
- ?Lv 67 years ago
I know this is a good thing, but it still gets me a little mifed.
All those people who could not get care were forced to go to emergency rooms for many, many years.
They are now paying into the system, getting care helping improve the entire system.
Working people all of them and they still hate this, sometimes it's very hard to understand this.
- Working ManLv 67 years ago
Yes, because the employer mandate was delayed until after the next general election which is over two years away.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Let's see...maybe I can come up with a way to spin this into bad news...hmmm....
I just thought of a way!
"Why is Obama forcing employers who didn't used to have insurance plans to need to have insurance plans in order to compete in the marketplace for labor? What a socialist!"
- Anonymous7 years ago
Obamacare added 7.1 Million and another 3 million for Medicaid expansion. So Obamacare is the driver, with more than 10.1 million being added.
- ?Lv 47 years ago
Of course I expected that when you mandate something, under penalty, many people are going to do it.
- Kinkade 0001Lv 67 years ago
Yes, people who actually understood what Obamacare was, knew this would happen.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
What's stunning is that many, many people have lost their insurance thanks to Obamacare and many more have also lost hours/pay so employers can avoid paying it.
