Health Care Tuesday Calculates Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

It’s Health Care Tuesday over at my health care blog, Simply stated health care.

The post looks at the various reports that predict the future of employer-sponsored health insurance.

With so much up in the air on health reform, how accurate are the predictions?

Here’s a sneak peek at the post.

Rolling the Dice on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Even non-math wizards recognize funny numbers when we see them.

Since the passing of health reform’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), the estimates of U.S. employees losing employer-sponsored health insurance have been all over the board.

• A McKinsey Survey reported 30% of employers will definitely or probably stop offering employer-sponsored insurance in the years after 2014
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Report released this month gives a worse-case scenario estimate of 20 million people losing their employer-sponsored insurance in 2019 and best-case of three to five million
• The Robert Wood Foundation issued a brief that concludes thorough analysis…supports the conclusion that the ACA, as intended, leaves employer-coverage intact

Combine an election year and statistics, and often the result is funny math.

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