Employers May Drop Health Benefits, Cheaper and Better Health Care, and Getting the ER Doc You Want
One in five employers is “seriously” considering dropping health benefits.
British NHS turns to private sector clinics. The care is cheaper and better.
What happens when emergency room patients ask to be seen by a physician of their same gender, race or religious background? Don’t bother if you are a white male.
I think the number of employers dropping coverage is going to be more than one in five.
Those clever Cigna guys. If brokers don’t get a commission, they are not going to bring in the business.
I agree with Stephen. Lots of employers are just going to wash their hands of the whole thing and punt.
You need to read beyond the “1 in 5” headline. The actual report says “More than eight out of ten employers (85%) said that health care benefits will either continue to be just as important, or more important, in the future.”
Although the health care bill has raised public consciousness, I can remember informal surveys of employers 5 years back where 15 or 20 percent of them said rising costs were making them consider dropping health insurance
artk, the difference here is that if most of your employees earn average or below average wages, they can get a better (subsidized) deal in the exchange than the employer can provide at work. Or at least it will look that way initially.
In regards to the article about the British NHS sending patients to a private sector diagnostic imaging center, I think by far the most telling sentence in the article was the following quote from a patient.
“We were transported to and from our doorstep to Harley Street, taken into this salubrious place and really treated as if we were a paying patient.”
If anyone reading this comment does not know the defintion of the word “salubrious”, I urge you to look it up, and then ask yourself the following question.
If government run health care is so wonderful, then why is it that when exposed to a salubrious environment, patients feel that there is a contrast to what they would otherwise receive in a government run health care facility?
It implies that to me that they do not feel that government run health care facilities are particularly salubrious.