[lbo-talk] Fortune: Big companies seriously considering dropping plans

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Sat May 8 04:59:31 PDT 2010


Isn't this exactly the same as the "evil" plot to overwhelm the system through enrolling everyone proposed by he-will-not-be-named, here? Only this is forced by corporate practices rather than citizen choice?

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:


>
> The rest of the article is very interesting if you're a health care geek:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/05/news/companies/dropping_benefits.fortune/
>
> Where they got the documents from is funny. It's only four companies --
> but that's 100% of the ones they subpoened. And the math makes it look like
> a good deal not only for the vast majority of companies but also for their
> employees for the companies to dump them.
>
> Which is kind of interesting to think about. If most companies took this
> route, it would overload the government finances and make more people
> directly dependent on government subsidies and regulation for their health
> care at the same time as it dismantled the employer run health care system.
>
> Michael
>
>



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