[Alberta's Child]

It's not "welfare" for large businesses at all. Giving them an outlet to eliminate a cost that they were never obligated to incur in the first place isn't a bad thing.

As I said all the way back in 2010 ... The Republican Party will never repeal ObamaCare because the whole purpose of it is to get employers out of the business of providing medical insurance for their employees. Everyone in Washington is on the same page on this one, despite the political grandstanding going on.

[rights with responsibilities]

Exactly.....during our company’s Open Enrollment last year it became obvious that:
1) The govermnent wants to run healthcare
and
2)Large companies are very willing to hand it over to the government because it’s expensive, time consuming and complicated to manage

Not surprising....unfortunately

[Flick Lives]

The cost is being shifted to the biggest business of all, Gov Inc.

[Bryanw92]

>>It’s not “welfare” for large businesses at all. Giving them an outlet to eliminate a cost that they were never obligated to incur in the first place isn’t a bad thing.

That “employer-paid” healthcare is a part of a worker’s compensation package, just like the cost of vacation and the actual cost of wages. When an employer is deciding how much to pay an employee, they look at the total cost and not just the salary.

So, if a worker makes $30/hr and another $15/hr in benefits, the total cost (and total compensation) is $45/hr. Giving businesses a way to shift $13/hr of that “cost” is another way of saying that they are cutting the compensation by $13/hr. Will they give that $13/hr to the employee to maintain the level of his compensation (since I doubt his work load will be reduced) or pocket it as profits? We all know the answer to that.

This was a brilliant move by the Progressives, knowing that the greed of the corporations will cause millions of loyal Conservatives to have their compensation cut by 20% or more, and then those workers will decide that they have to vote with the Progs so they can get some of that lost compensation back from the government in the form of subsidies.

It will be the destruction of the petit bourgeois (i.e. working middle class) that Marx says must be done to create the proper split between the labor class and the capital class.