Unfortunately this was intended.
Exactly.
I don’ think so. I think it is the law of unintended consequences. OBama thought these companies would keep the retirees in their plans even though they lost the tax free subsidy from the government for keeping them out of medicare and on their plan. I think Obama thought they would simply charge the retirees more for leaving them in the prescription plan aspect of their retiree plan because he thinks everybody is making money on them. He was wrong. Corporations are dumping them on medicare.