Every man likes to hear that phrase once in a while!
My husband foretold the future pretty early in the health care debate. He maintained that since the government penalties are far lower for corporations who choose not to provide insurance to their employees than the price of providing the insurance, they’d all end up taking that route. Then the onus would be on the individual to purchase insurance… and if they didn’t, there would of course be a fine. Taxes on taxes on taxes.
Even though obama claimed that we wouldn’t lose our coverage if we had it… nothing would change. Only for those sad people who had no insurance… well, hubby was right. Some corporations are already coming out with the news that they are considering dropping employee coverage.
In a stunning revelation Wednesday, several top U.S. corporations are seriously considering dropping employee health insurance coverage in light of what they see as the inevitable consequence of ObamaCare–skyrocketing costs.
The companies state that after their legal experts poured over the thousands of pages in the new law, it will cost them less to pay the fines for not providing healthcare coverage for employees than continuing to provide employer-paid health insurance benefits.
As a side-note to the announcement, the companies maintain that ObamaCare will result in a dramatic increase in expenses for providing employee coverage, with added costs skyrocketing to multi-billions of dollars.
According to Business Record:
“Additionally, the penalties to businesses for not offering coverage are less expensive than the cost of providing insurance, she said. “But for those that aren’t providing coverage now, this is a huge burden to them. And for employers that have a lot of employees working 30 hours (the threshold to be considered full- ime), you may have a lot of businesses cutting them back to 29 hours.”
Business Record maintains that despite this fact most companies will probably try to continue to provide coverage.
But a report issued today in Fortune Magazine and reported by CNN indicates that the dire warnings of ObamaCare critics concerning the consequences of approving the costly legislation are in fact well-founded.
The report points to internal documents from AT&T, Verizon, John Deere, and several other large corporations which show that executives are, in fact, looking at the option of dropping healthcare coverage for employees due to what they are sure will be unsustainable increases in costs. These costs will be so prohibitive that it would benefit the corporations to pay the government fines instead.
The economy, business, the individual, free speech, terrorism… gee, what will obama and his minions muck up next?
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7. May 2010 at 11:39 am
Did that so corporations would drop it’s employees from it’s insurance, just another easy step into universal health care.
If everyone is buying insurance from the goberment, it makes it quite easy to transission to universal.
One small step at a time, isn’t that what some dumocrats were saying on how to get to universal health care.
7. May 2010 at 12:21 pm
One small step for man, one giant leap for socialism.
7. May 2010 at 1:54 pm
The fun question is simple. Are these people “running” the country simply so damned stupid that they simply cannot see that everywhere these wonderful ideas have been tied they failed? Or are they simply so damned hateful that they know it and are doing it just to hurt millions of people they’ve never even met?
Either way, they are, as a bunch, capable of fucking up an anvil with a feather duster. Actually, they’re too lazy to pick up the feather duster, they’ll have an aide do it. Same result, though.
7. May 2010 at 2:25 pm
I vote for hateful. All the wealth-spreading, the leveling, the… hateful.
7. May 2010 at 3:31 pm
Follow the money – it is not personal – just business taking care of family and friends – what do you think the market shit was yesterday – accidenbtal shorting of stock that produced billons in profit after buying back to fill the short – and it was legal
7. May 2010 at 4:04 pm
Yep, it’s just business. But oshamwow is the one creating the conditions…
10. May 2010 at 7:55 pm
Corporations are talking…good!
This isn’t a done deal yet. We have lawsuits to settle.
11. May 2010 at 7:55 am
At least one of those will be settled at the supreme court. Don’t know if that scares me or not…