This will absolutely happen. When the fine is $2,000.00, and the cost of group health insurance is $12,000.00, it's a no-brainer. I would cancel my employees' coverage in a heart beat and pay the fine.teri wrote:I do believe this will happen. The insurance premiums will go through the roof.Slowplay wrote: Let's see if they are still celebrating when their employers opt to pay the penalty, drop their health care options/benefits, and have them fend for their own health care policies (or they forego buying insurance and are forced to pay the Obamacare tax).
I'll tell you what else..... I own a small business. Right now, it is just me and my wife, and I occasionally subcontract work to trusted individuals as needed. This law has gauranteed that no matter how big my business gets, I will NEVER hire any full or part time employees. Government has made it too expensive, and I can do all my work by hiring subcontractors on an as-needed basis. Eventually, I will be merely a "general contractor" and will sub out 90% or more of what I contract from customers. But I'll never provide a job for anybody. Your government made sure of it. I don't call it my government because it no longer represents any of my interests. I love this country with a deep and abiding passion. But its government is an occupying power which has nothing but grasping more power for itself in mind.
Washington, Adams, and Jefferson........and even Lincoln......would be rolling in their graves. They were all about stewardship and the preservation of liberty for their descendents. Not so this bunch of political rape artists.
Translated for those who are not: "Hades is full of good intentions and desires."Slowplay wrote:For our francophone friends: L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés et désirs
If Romney does not get elected and then follow through on his promise to gut and/or repeal Obamacare, we are doomed.