June 26th, 2011 by Stanley Feld, M.D. in Health Policy, Opinion
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McKinsey Quarterly has reported its survey concluding there will be a radical restructuring of employer-sponsored health benefits (ESI) as a result of President Obama’s following the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Healthcare insurance rates have already skyrocketed as a result of anticipating the conditions of Obama care. President Obama has been powerless to do anything about the increases.
Thirty percent (30%) of companies providing ESI to their employees will drop healthcare insurance coverage once Obama care takes effect in 2014.
The survey included 1300 employers providing ESI across industries, geographies, and employer sizes. Other surveys have found that as we get closer to 2014, President Obama’s Healthcare Reform Act will provoke a much greater number of employers to drop employer sponsored healthcare insurance.
The penalty for not providing healthcare insurance coverage is much cheaper than providing healthcare coverage.
McKinsey’s survey suggests that when more employers become aware of the new economic and social incentives embedded in Obamacare the percentage of employers dropping ESI will Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Repairing the Healthcare System*
December 8th, 2010 by Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D. in Better Health Network, Health Policy, News
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The day Elizabeth Edwards announced that she had breast cancer, my heart sank. Finding a lump in the breast only heightens the suspicious that the prognosis may not be good and in Elizabeth’s case, it wasn’t.
We all admired Elizabeth for different reasons. In my case, it was her love for healthcare reform that quickly grabbed my attention. Elizabeth advocated universal healthcare and comprehensive insurance for all Americans, not a “compromised” version based on partisanship and politics. As the years wore on, she discussed her diagnosis of incurable breast cancer with passion stating that she knew that she had access to the best possible care, but empathized with women who were not as fortunate.
It is said that behind every successful man lies the power behind the throne, and we know this to be true about Elizabeth. She was an accomplished attorney in her own right who took a backseat to raise her kids and support the presidential candidacy of her husband. For a while I thought Elizabeth had won the battle against breast cancer during its remission, but then it resurfaced its ugly head in the midst of her husband’s presidential campaign and she handled it with dignity and grace. Read more »
*This blog post was originally published at Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway*
