Comments on: Republicans Stall Health Mark-Up By Offering Inadequate Alternative Plan http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/questions-about-the-patients-choice-act/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/questions-about-the-patients-choice-act/comment-page-1/#comment-155419 stateofthedivision Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:31:01 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=18978#comment-155419 That was supposed to be 401(k) and not a joke about the declining value of anyone's retirement accounts. OH! You're my new favorite blogger fyi That was supposed to be 401(k) and not a joke about the declining value of anyone’s retirement accounts.
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]]> By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/questions-about-the-patients-choice-act/comment-page-1/#comment-155396 stateofthedivision Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:26:27 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=18978#comment-155396 That was supposed to be 401(k) and not a joke about the declining value of anyone's retirement accounts. That was supposed to be 401(k) and not a joke about the declining value of anyone’s retirement accounts.

]]> By: stateofthedivision http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/07/14/questions-about-the-patients-choice-act/comment-page-1/#comment-155395 stateofthedivision Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:25:31 +0000 http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/?p=18978#comment-155395 Employers don't need new incentives to drop health insurance coverage, they have plenty reason now. The shift to high deductible health plans is an interim step to shedding the benefit altogether, i.e dumping it on the employee. Look at the history of defined benefit pension plans. Most are gone. Employers switched to 301(k)'s and when times got tough, they dropped the employer match. The same is on the horizon for health insurance. The dump will happen faster under red proposals, but will occur just the same under blue. Obama, Orzag, Emanuel, and Summers use Chamber of Commerce rhetoric for reforming health care. Businesses want to dump that pesky health insurance benefit to the employee. Unions stand ready to serve as a huge group purchaser, thus the pairing of health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act. Everything before a conference bill is for public consumption. Read the final bill closely. Employers don’t need new incentives to drop health insurance coverage, they have plenty reason now. The shift to high deductible health plans is an interim step to shedding the benefit altogether, i.e dumping it on the employee.

Look at the history of defined benefit pension plans. Most are gone. Employers switched to 301(k)’s and when times got tough, they dropped the employer match.

The same is on the horizon for health insurance. The dump will happen faster under red proposals, but will occur just the same under blue. Obama, Orzag, Emanuel, and Summers use Chamber of Commerce rhetoric for reforming health care.

Businesses want to dump that pesky health insurance benefit to the employee. Unions stand ready to serve as a huge group purchaser, thus the pairing of health care reform and the Employee Free Choice Act.

Everything before a conference bill is for public consumption. Read the final bill closely.

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