Study says one-third of employers might reduce insurance by 2014 - abc27

HARRISBURG, PA (WHTM)-

A recent study suggests that by 2014, 30 per cent of employers stop offering health insurance. This is equivalent to the President Obama affordable care Act.

The Act aims to improve the health of all Americans and save money in the country.

"We have already seen that premiums and health costs are sky arrow, step entirely due to the new law, but he was not certainly arose from this increase," said Nathan Benefield with the Commonwealth Foundation. "And you see employers are will be dropping coverage or change the coverage or reduce what they offer a lot of mandates and requirements."

McKinsey and Company suggests that 30 percent of employers said that they reduce coverage. Employers who will have to pay a fine which, in some cases, could be cheaper than the delivery of care.

The opponents are not affected.

"There will be an opportunity for them to find affordable insurance on insurance Exchange run here in Pennsylvania, of health", said the Director of Sharon Ward of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center.

But Scott Wagner, President of Penn waste, disagrees. He would not stop offer of insurance coverage to its workers. He said readers of costs Act and is bad for business.

"If Penn waste, we do have benefits for our employees and someone in the street, whether a trucking company or a manufacturing facility has advantages, we will not be able to be competitive on the market of labour so to speak," said Wagner.

What is make insurance a right more in class mean?

"People pay taxes and they should receive something for their taxes, said Ward." And because of this, it is important that people have health insurance.  It is the obligation in which everyone needs to purchase. »

Ward believes that the Act will help only Americans, their wallets and their health.

"We will be much better off the coast in three years that we are today," she said.

The study also showed that 85 per cent of people would remain in their current, even if employment employers just their Medicare coverage.

Ward has said that this study is not agree with any other study there, or the experience of the real world. She said after five years of health care reform in Massachusetts, the number of people covered by employer health insurance has increased.

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