Obamacare hurting employees’ coverage before it even passes

Posted by Bill Dupray on Mar 11 2010 Filed under Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry

As we and the Washington Post pointed out last August, the president’s whole “if you like your current health plan, you can keep it” schtick is a bald-faced lie. It is a lie because if your employer decides what coverage you get, then your employer decides what coverage you lose. Whether you like your plan or not has nothing to do with it.

Fast forward to today and we see that, as predicted, employers expect are expected to cut benefits and charge employees more for their policies as a result of Obamacare. And they are telling employees, before the bill even passes, that they will not be able to keep their coverage. Just the thought of Obamacare seems to kill coverage. Powerful stuff.

People who work for large corporations have some of the most stable and comprehensive medical coverage in the nation. They are insulated from insurance industry practices at the heart of the Washington health-care debate, such as having their policies rescinded after getting sick or being denied coverage based on preexisting conditions. However, the new survey is a reminder that even people who are satisfied with their insurance plans cannot count on a continuation of the status quo. . . .

[A recent survey] found anxiety among employers about the government’s plans to revamp the health-care system. Although the substance of the pending legislation has been a moving target, more than two-thirds of those surveyed said they expected it to make their plans more costly. More than a quarter predicted it would prompt them to make coverage less generous. . . .

Fifty-six percent plan to hold employees responsible for a larger share of the costs next year, the survey found.

It is only the president and the Democrats who continue peddling the preposterous fiction that this health care takeover will not alter your current plan. Who are you going to believe, the president or your employer who says you can’t keep the plan you are satisfied with?

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