The percentage of small and medium-sized businesses offering health coverage to employees shriveled to 38% from 67% between 1995 and 2008, according to the National Small Business Assn. Without reform, the number will continue to plummet.
Very telling statistic. This combined with the Business Council's estimate that the average per employee insurance cost will go from $10K to $29K by 2019, says
change is on the way, whether the government does anything or not.
Those not making deep into six figures, or who are not at least in upper middle corporate management, are going to be surprised in a few years, when their companies start cutting their salaries or cutting their benefits to make the numbers work.
In 10 years, when somebody has to take little coughing, shivering Johnny to the ER, because their (new) policy only pays at 50%, and they're still paying off last year's bills (so the doc won't see them during the day), they'll whine about how the
guvment should do something.
I'm not claiming that one plan or the other is THE way to go. But so many seem to be content to sit on their hands... cause they think that not doing anything will still give them what they've got now. :rofl: And what's even funnier, the ones who probably have the least to worry about, no matter what happens, are the ones currently under
socialist plans: Medicare, Medicaid and VA. Ain't that a kick in the head?
