Ezekiel Emanuel: ObamaCare Spells End Of Employer Insurance

by JASmius

Once in a great while a break appears in the ObamaCare BS clouds and a tiny shaft of candor manages to shine through.

Which, of course, promptly reconfirms all the abysmal results - and that Ezekiel Emanuel doesn't hold elective office:

ObamaCare will bring "the end of employer-sponsored insurance," says Ezekiel J. Emanuel, who helped design the healthcare plan, but he insists the shift will be "a good thing" that helps control costs and improve consumer choices.

"It'll be a matter of a few big employers, blue-chip companies" making the move, Emanuel told the New York Times. "Then it's going to be the norm."

In his new book, "Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System," Emanuel estimates that private-sector workers who get insurance through their employers will drop below 20% by 2025.

Just under 60% of workers now get their insurance through employer-sponsored plans.

As Obamacare continues, companies will begin backing away from providing health insurance, says Emanuel, whose brother Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago and Obama's former chief of staff.

It's happening already, he wrote in an article earlier this month in the New Republic.

I'm going to be lazy and blatantly rip off Jim Geraghty's punchline, since I'm starting to get repetition-sick again:

Now he tells us.

....Avik Roy is quoted in the article that this would have some benefits, in that getting people to buy insurance individually makes it more portable from job to job and location to location. But for millions of Americans who are watching others get cancellation notices, this is horrifying, and says their fears are well-founded. The advantages of employer-based insurance are first, simplicity; your employer shops around for the plan they prefer. The second benefit is your employer covering a big chunk of the cost. Republicans were right all along: This is designed to get companies to toss their employers off their own plans and into the exchanges — where, as we’ve seen, a lot of people don’t like the options.

Think about how this nullifies so many of the talking points of the bill! “Now young people can stay on their parents’ plan until age 26” doesn’t mean much if Mom and Dad lose their plan. Eliminating “lifetime limits on essential medical expenses” is good only if you can afford health insurance. The pledge that insurers can no longer drop your coverage if you’re sick doesn’t mean much if you’re losing your insurance when you’re healthy.

As noted below, several state exchanges still aren’t working at all or are barely working.

This thing is a disaster from top to bottom, sold with egregious lies and outrageous duplicity.

If you like your plan . . . we’re going to destroy it.

Well, actually, they already have.  You just don't know it yet.

But don't worry, insists Crazy Nancy Pelosi yet again, that will be a winning message for Democrats this November.

Remember how she insisted right up until Election Day 2010 that her party was going to retain control of the House?  I wonder if she's filled out her NCAA tournament bracket yet.