unbridled_id Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation have prepared a new analysis of the ramifications of President Obama's health care law on employer-based insurance. Outlining multiple scenarios for the ramifications of the act, based on the level of employer buy-in to shifting their employees to the exchanges, the CBO and JCT find that the number of Americans losing employer-based coverage could be dramatically larger than previously estimated. Their analysis finds that approximately 3-5 million people will lose their employer based insurance under what they view as the likeliest outcome of the law, noting that "because of the ACA, about 3 million to 5 million fewer people, on net, will obtain coverage through their employer each year from 2019 through 2022 than would have been the case under prior law." Up to 20 million people could lose this employer-based insurance in 2019 under a more drastic scenario: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2012/03/15/cbo-obamacare-could-make-20-million-people-lose-employer-based-insuranc http://cbo.gov/publication/43082 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 NEWSFLASH: They lose it anyway when they're "downsized". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unbridled_id Posted March 16, 2012 Author Share Posted March 16, 2012 NEWSFLASH: They lose it anyway when they're "downsized". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 Wow that is insightful.... and if the company goes out of business they all lose it ... Try sticking to the article and what the CBO says and it's ramifications.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 The source from the article is from The Heartland Institute. Here's all you need to know: The Heartland Institute is a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank based in Chicago, Illinois which advocates free market policies... As of 2011, it has a full-time staff of 40, including editors and senior fellows. The Institute was founded in 1984 and conducts research and advocacy work on issues including government spending, taxation, healthcare, tobacco policy, global warming, information technology and free-market environmentalism. In the 1990s, the group worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks, and to lobby against government public health reforms. More recently, the Institute has focused on questioning the science of climate change, has sponsored meetings of climate change skeptics, and is now promoting public school curricula challenging the scientific consensus on climate change. (From - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heartland_Institute) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Diem Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 right wingers are hilarious here is the conclusion of the link on the actual CBO link you supplied. "In CBO and JCT's judgment, a sharp decline in employment-based health insurance as a result of the ACA is unlikely and, if it occurred, would not dramatically increase the cost of the ACA." could not have guessed that from the headline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi Babe Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 The source from the article is from The Heartland Institute. Here's all you need to know: Yes, the same "non-profit group" who openly challenged the science linking secondhand smoke to health risks is most certainly worried primarily of the health coverage of Americans. Yup...no alternative motives whatsoever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lateralus Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 'Alternative' or 'Ulterior'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 'Alternative' or 'Ulterior'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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