It's inevitable that there will be cost overruns and an inability of the government to sustain the subsidies etc. that are counted on now to keep Obamacare afloat. Eventually (probably very much sooner than these people realize) the government is going to go hunting for more ways to pay for the subsidies etc., and they will come after business. At that point, business won't be able to shop around for the best insurance deal for their employees and themselves. They will pay the bill the government hands them, and it will be a lot worse than what they are dealing with now.
Further, if the whole system collapses and the democrats get their way with single payer, it will be even worse for U.S. businesses. I know many of them don't think so, but they will see the light in due course.
Interesting angle. You are probably right.
I think that you got it about right. This has never really been about health care anyway. If it were, we would have discussed tort reform, health care accounts, maybe increasing competition across state lines. It has been and is about concentrating power into the hands of the government class. Business leaders need to succumb to them just as much as anybody, if not more. Serfdom. Better get used to it.
“government is going to go hunting for more ways to pay for the subsidies etc., and they will come after business. “
But businesses do have an option, and that is to move operations overseas and avoid those additional taxes.
The real losers are middle class Americans who will be left with sub-par insurance, and the liability of paying extra for it.
The thing is, the middle man never pays the bills and the employer is the middle man.
What happens when the boss gets the bill? He figures out a way to pay it and that way will be to take it from the employees compensation package. That raise you might expect someday won't happen. It's going to pay that government healthcare bill.