I agree with your premise, but must disagree with your conclusion.
The result will be, as intended by those who crafted the law, the end of private insurance and the forced migration into government healthcare.
What they’ve done for school lunches they will soon do for your chemotherapy.
1. Reviewing the methodology, those polled were small business owners; very few with “corporate executives.”
2. Insurance costs to employers (and thus employees) have risen every year. Framing it the way this article has doesn’t really mean anything.
3. When dropping benefits, it is expected that employers compensate employees for this compensation loss - and they will, or they won’t have workers anymore.
4. Actually, I think they have to as part of ObamaCare. (Not sure.)
5. Private insurance exchanges are about to explode. They’ve been approved in 49 states and will compete with the crappy state and federal exchanges. Brokers have incentive to sell on the private exchanges (not much though) and people who care about their health and family will go with private exchanges - keeping the private insurers in business.