ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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No one should get the idea they could have kept it without it though. It was going to go away one way or another.
My (private) employer is taking the unprecedented step of moving us from one carrier to another mid-year. We were just notified yesterday that as of July we will be using another provider. We've been with our current provider for years, and I was fairly happy with it. I've never heard of changes to the plan mid-year, not to mention switching the whole company from one provider to another.
I want Obama to tell me why I can't keep my current health plan. After all, that is what he promised.
My employer is switching from a plan where we self insured, and had five or six different plan options with different administrators, to a single national insurer with two plan options. Much of the language is hinting at higher deductibles (they actually mention that we will better be able to identify the true cost of care, and manage our expenses accordingly). I'm not sure what the motivation is, other than cost control.
ObamaCare Will Reduce Wages
ObamaCare increases health insurance premiums and requires the employer to pay that increase. The employer pays this cost out of the production of the employee. So, the employer must offer a lower wage or fire the employee. The employee will likely blame the employer, not ObamaCare.[Comment removed pending confirmation of email address and for crude language. Email the webmaster@econlib.org to request restoring your comment privileges. A valid email address is required to post comments on EconLog.--Econlib Ed.]