No, much higher since obamacare. I'm talking healthcare costs, not just insurance. Part of ACA was to raise the price of healthcare via taxes on actually healthcare and equipment. The law actually mandates healthcare costs to increase dramatically.
They've risen just as much as they did before it passed. Asshat.
No, much higher since obamacare. I'm talking healthcare costs, not just insurance. Part of ACA was to raise the price of healthcare via taxes on actually healthcare and equipment. The law actually mandates healthcare costs to increase dramatically.
Ten million more restaurant workers are going to have health care? And it only costs an extra 50 cents per meal? That's pretty awesome.
Plus I no longer have to pay for their emergency room visits out of my health care? Double awesome.
Knowing the people who handle my food have health care? Priceless.
Sure they are -- all cosst of doing business is built into every good and service sold. And of course health coverage is treated as a tax deductible expense so the net cost to employers won't affect the bottom line much.
In any case, Denny's and the rest of corporate America had a choice: to engage in substantive discussion about alternatives. Escalating health costs have been a drag on the economy for a long time and companies were quietly (some not so quietly) shrinking their health coverage for over a decade befoe Obama was elected.
I remember being quite hopeful when I read this article in 2007 New Urgency in Debating Health Care; and dismayed by the non-solution we ended up with. Corporations had their chance to get engaged in the solution and declined to do so.
Well I agree with you on the latter but Corporate America is indeed part of the problem.Corporate America isn't the one with the real problem, the Federal Government is.
There is absolutely zero political will to even put a bandaid on this problem so I have no faith at all that it will be addressed until the train comes off the tracks.
And you have just as much info to back this up as you do the following :
1) Rick Perry is going to win in '12
2) "November is coming, be ready"
Please show your work where since the legislation was passed that costs have increased ~18% per year. We'll all wait anxiously.
Insurance premiums are not the problem;its the cost of care. If the country were to go to "Medicare for All", the whopping savings would be about 5% -- which is hardly enough to justify such a massive change. We need to get real about the cost of care.Giving health insurance companies over 10 percent off the top of every health care premium is whats unsustainable.
Ten million more restaurant workers are going to have health care? And it only costs an extra 50 cents per meal? That's pretty awesome.
Plus I no longer have to pay for their emergency room visits out of my health care? Double awesome.
Knowing the people who handle my food have health care? Priceless.
Corporate America isn't the one with the real problem, the Federal Government is.
Business has already found the work around decades BEFORE obamacare...cut hours below 30 so you don't have to provide insurnace.
Metz is the franchisor of Hurricane Grill & Wings, which has 48 locations, five of which are corporate owned, and president and owner of RREMC Restaurants, which runs approximately 40 Denny's and several Dairy Queen locations. He planned to use the 5 percent surcharge tactic in all his restaurants starting in January 2014, when Obamacare is fully implemented.
Insurance premiums are not the problem;its the cost of care. If the country were to go to "Medicare for All", the whopping savings would be about 5% -- which is hardly enough to justify such a massive change. We need to get real about the cost of care.
That is totally incorrect.Insurance premiums are not the problem;its the cost of care. If the country were to go to "Medicare for All", the whopping savings would be about 5% -- which is hardly enough to justify such a massive change. We need to get real about the cost of care.
So, I assume he is rolling out this surcharge the all the other restaurants he owns. I bet his health care is wonderful..and probably the same for the top level employees under him.
I personally don't need to show you work, I have actuals to back up this data. We just had our annual enrollment for 2013, and my health insurance premiums increased by 36.5% ($2,550) over 2012. With the company stating that raises for 2013 are going to be 3%, my raise won't cover the health insurance increase.
I've been paying my own insurance for for almost 20 years and my premiums for next year will increase by less than 4%. That's the lowest annual increase I've ever had. Other people were seeing huge increases in their deductibles and copays long before the 2008 election. Bottom line: anecdotes don't prove much.I personally don't need to show you work, I have actuals to back up this data. We just had our annual enrollment for 2013, and my health insurance premiums increased by 36.5% ($2,550) over 2012. With the company stating that raises for 2013 are going to be 3%, my raise won't cover the health insurance increase.
I'm sorry but you have it wrong. George Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Health Plan, talked about this a couple of years ago in an interview. I definitely agree that the health coverage business should be non-profit (as it is in Germany and Switzerland -- indeed used to be in the US) but getting rid of it would not save us. Medicare -- which was designed from the start to pay doctors whatever they asked for -- is part of the problem, not the solution.That is totally incorrect.
That is totally incorrect.
Medicare overhead is between 2 and 3 percent. Private insurance companies substantially more than 10 percent.
Imagine having ten percent more to put towards care? And imagine the downward pressure on prices when a much larger single payer covers most patients/
That's an easy one...because they are forced to use faux "free market" delivery systems.It should be why the government is not managing to provide everyone with health care with the money it already spends.