More workers opting out of company health plans

[wvit1001]

The weak economy continues to have a harsh effect on workers’ access to health insurance -- not necessarily because workers aren’t offered it but because they can’t afford it.
 
A new study from the Employment Benefit Research Institute finds that 55.8 percent of employees were getting health insurance directly from their employer as of April 2011, the most recent [HIGHLIGHT=#NaNNaNNaN]data[/HIGHLIGHT] available. That’s a nearly 5 percentage point drop from December 2007, when the economy first went into recession, and the researchers said early research shows that the number probably fell further.
 
The drop comes after more than a decade in which the [HIGHLIGHT=#NaNNaNNaN]rate[/HIGHLIGHT] of employees getting insurance in their own name held steady at around 60 percent.
 
It appears that it’s the cost, not the availability, of health insurance that is the primary thing keeping workers from getting insured. Ninety percent of uninsured workers said they didn’t have insurance because it was too costly.
 
The study was based on government data on workers age 18 to 64.
 
http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/24/11835959-more-workers-opting-out-of-company-health-plans?lite

[stretch351c]

Well, when you have to pay more for everything thanks to Obama's failure, you have to make choices.

[viking12j]

Like last year's bumpers sticker said, "If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it's free".

[Oz]

One of the main reasons we need ObamaCare  (which is due to begin the insurance exchanges next year):

[stretch351c]

And it's all thanks to government Oz.

[Oz]

That's private insurance, stretch... not the government. 

[stretch351c]

And government regulation is the cause of the increase Oz.

[Thomasj_tx]

The weak economy

 
Damn.  And you still try to say that the economy is kicking ass.
 
And remember BHO saying "If you like your insurance, you will be able to keep it"?
 
He lied just as you always do, wvit.

[D2D]

Oz, government mandates increases in coverage that people cannot afford!

Obama is forcing people to starve or pay for insurance they don't want!

[Oz]

Yes, Thomas, under the Affordable Care Act "If you like your insurance, you will be able to keep it"...
 
But not now.  If you lose your job, employer doesn't have health insurance, or you can't afford it now you're just shit out of luck.
 
 
No Thomas, no one has said the economy is "kicking ass" - just that it has gotten a whole lot better... and continues to get better as we recover from Bush's recession.
 
When we get back to Clinton's 4.0% unemployment - THEN the economy will be kicking ass again... like it did under Clinton.
 
Yes, D2D - that's why the Affordable Care Act has assistance in it for poor people - so they can get health insurance.

[D2D]

The Middle Class cannot afford your "affordable care act" either!

Only the rich can afford it and they will likely go to foreign nations for their care!

[Oz]

D2D:  Dumbass liar.