"If you talk to small businesses, the biggest cost is health care, and we have to figure out how to get together and make it affordable for everyone," she added.in employer-sponsored plans, who comprise more than half of the U.S. population. Polling shows an overwhelming majority like their employer-sponsored insurance — although Lake notes much of the appeal is that employers foot most of the bill.
The willingness to consider the public option comes as employers' historically close lobbying alliance with the health insurance industry has frayed over issues like the Trump administration's push to publicize the secret rates hospitals and insurers negotiate. Employers are pushing for more transparency while hospitals and insurers fight the effort as a threat to their business.
“I still can’t believe that we in our democracy allow [the health care industry] to have the power at the table that they have.”"It demonstrates that the provider community is pushing payers toward government solutions," said James Gelfand of the ERISA Industry Committee, who was a top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during the Obamacare wars and successfully fought against the inclusion of a public option.
Frustrations with cost reverberate across the board, among representatives of multinational energy firms, banks, universities and technology firms. Also factoring into the debate are smaller companies, family businesses and entrepreneurs who increasingly have to drop insurance benefits due to the costs of the small group and individual markets of Obamacare.
Stop paying for 20 million illegal aliens that will save at least 20 billion.... Dah. Nobody else has 25 + million illegal aliens in their country having babies plus all the muslim refugees Obama saddled us with. While he wages war with Russia through Ukraine bypassing congress
Why would they shifts their burden 💰 to tax payers. The working class would be paying the bill, no more employer based healthcare benefits. We would lose are current insurance and be forced to take a more expensive water down government run health care.
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This is exactly how pressuring from the left works. Democrats should try it sometime, if they even care.
Workers can have just a little health. As a treat.
Big employers should be glad to be released fgom the shackles of big insurance companies. MedicareforAll
Spoiler: the costs of healthcare finally be outweigh the value of holding it over employees as leverage, forcing employers to finally seek ease.
Medicare 4 all means Medical care 4 none. Have u people 4gotten the Ponzi scheme obamacare so quickly & how it destroyed our health system?
I thought The Affordable Care Act was an 'in-between step'.
It’s a good thing that we don’t care what big employers want.
Because they use healthcare as a way to lure people into their workplaces. Single Payer gives workers more freedom to choose their employer and line of work.
Fuck them
Propaganda much?