This Will Be The Republican Healh Care Plan If The ACA Is Struck Down

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2. The ACA has motivated more than a few companies to evaluate whether they will continue to carry

employee health insurance altogether.

I think it's only a matter of time before that becomes a rarity. The mandate had a side effect which meant that small business employer's could "drop" their plans with impunity since there would be a federally mandated option available for their employees under the ACA. A business could then take itself out of that whole rigamarole of offering health insurance to its employees (which is prohibitively expensive, difficult to administer, and a real pain in the ass).

Even if the mandate is struck down, or all of the ACA is struck, I think the door has already been opened whereby businesses are evaluating why the hell they are their employee's health care gateway (which really is absurd on the face of it anyway). I predict more and more of them will simply stop offering it regardless of how SCOTUS rules. What was once unthinkable has now been a standard conversation in virtually all human resources departments across the country on whether to continue offering health insurance or dropping it.

I predict the only way this country will ever get single payer, universal health care is if companies stop offering it to employees. THEN the howling will really begin for a sane system.