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riderinthestorm

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4. Employers are already dropping health insurance for their employees

Sat Mar 31, 2012, 08:22 PM

Mar 2012

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The survey finds over the last decade, premiums for employer-provided health insurance have jumped by 153 percent. The proportion of companies that offer coverage has fallen by more than 13 percent in the last two years alone.

The California Association of Health Plans maintains insurer profits are not to blame for the rise in premiums. But Doug Heller, with the non-profit group Consumer Watchdog, disagrees.

"That money's goin' somewhere, and you and I and everybody knows it's not stickin' in our pockets, it's goin' right to their bank accounts," Heller argued. "Their premiums have gone up five times faster than inflation. It doesn't make sense, and it's gotta stop."

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/jan/05/rising-health-insurance-premiums-causing-more-empl/

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Oddly, the Rat-bastard insurance companies may be our ally in the SCOTUS ruling. [View all] SoCalDem Mar 2012 OP

As long as there are insurance companies profiting Lint Head Mar 2012 #1

and that is why SCOTUS may say it's okeedokie SoCalDem Mar 2012 #2

Have you ProSense Mar 2012 #3

That is precisely my argument for why I think they will uphold it. SoCalDem Mar 2012 #5

Employers are already dropping health insurance for their employees riderinthestorm Mar 2012 #4