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Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« on: July 26, 2012, 04:48:27 PM »
That is until the the accountants sharpened their pencils....

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/survey-one-11-employers-plan-194200262.html

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9% of them planned to stop offering health care coverage...
Another 10% of employers polled in the Deloitte survey indicated that they hadn't yet made up their mind.

The 10% will they're just not saying they will right now...

After that, it becomes a race to dump and then we're all on Obamacare !!!!  YEAH!!!! :facepalm: [barf]
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2012, 04:50:56 PM »
Who could POSSIBLY have predicted such an outcome?  I'm sure the president and his minions are as surprised and disappointed at this outcome as I am.  Probably even more. :facepalm:
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2012, 04:55:54 PM »
See?  Big companies are screwing over employees yet again.  It's a good thing that we got alternatives by mandate just in time to relieve some of the pressure on the working class before they have to go without so CEO's can have their golden parachute.
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2012, 08:37:37 PM »
I might not remember it correctly, but didn't big employers like McDonald's and Walmart get a waiver before to law was even passed? They don't have to insure or even pay the fine that is cheaper then offering insurance.

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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2012, 08:42:05 PM »
Quote from: Nick1911 on July 26, 2012, 04:55:54 PM
See?  Big companies are screwing over employees yet again.  It's a good thing that we got alternatives by mandate just in time to relieve some of the pressure on the working class before they have to go without so CEO's can have their golden parachute.

Someone needs to check on Nick.  I think he has been possessed by an alien DeSelby.  I saw this on Star Trek, so I know how it works.
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #5 on: July 26, 2012, 09:03:30 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on July 26, 2012, 08:42:05 PM
Someone needs to check on Nick.  I think he has been possessed by an alien DeSelby.  I saw this on Star Trek, so I know how it works.

When have I ever said a positive thing about Obamacare?

I think that there are strong arguments in favor of public health care - lower costs, equivalent service, mainly.

Obamacare is not public healthcare, and seems to have been crafted to benefit insurance companies.  They aren't upset by rising premiums or mandatory purchases of their products like the rest of us.
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2012, 09:44:20 PM »
Quote from: De Selby on July 26, 2012, 09:03:30 PM
When have I ever said a positive thing about Obamacare?

I think that there are strong arguments in favor of public health care - lower costs, equivalent service, mainly.

Obamacare is not public healthcare, and seems to have been crafted to benefit insurance companies.  They aren't upset by rising premiums or mandatory purchases of their products like the rest of us.

It was more the ' big companies screwing employees....pressure on working class.....CEO's golden parachute' that made me think of you.  Not Obamacare per se.  All meant in good fun. 
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2012, 09:46:39 PM »
Wasn't this more or less known before it passed?  At least to anyone who listened to actual critics.
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2012, 11:11:53 PM »
Quote from: MillCreek on July 26, 2012, 09:44:20 PM
It was more the ' big companies screwing employees....pressure on working class.....CEO's golden parachute' that made me think of you.  Not Obamacare per se.  All meant in good fun. 

I know your heart was in the right place there, I just had to take the opportunity to rip on Obamacare  :police:
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2012, 09:50:33 AM »
Quote from: MillCreek on July 26, 2012, 08:42:05 PM
Someone needs to check on Nick.  I think he has been possessed by an alien DeSelby.  I saw this on Star Trek, so I know how it works.

I think your sarcasm meter is reading off scale low.  ;)
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Re: Remember how we were told: "You can keep you health insurance".
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2012, 10:16:50 AM »
You can keep your health insurance , IF it continues to be offered.  I knew that private insurance would die fairly rapidly once Obama Care was in place.

One of the big things I dislike about the whole health care deal is the government having easy access to all of this information on the majority of the population.   It will be used... trust me.
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