Our health insurance agent told us yesterday that our premiums may go up 30% or more when we renew. There's no way that we can shoulder that, so we will either need to drastically reduce coverage or opt to pay the penalty and let the employee's fend for themselves, which ultimately may be the best thing for them. They may be able to get better coverage through Obamacare than what we can offer them for the money, but if we offer them a plan even if it sucks, they would be ineligible.
My conspiracy theory all along was that the goal was to price health insurance out of the business market and thereby force people onto the government plans. They couldn't get socialized health insurance to fly the first time around, so they needed to come up with a long term insidious plan that could get the job done before people figured it out.
everan
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