Case study: Auto dealership workers cope with ObamaCare sticker shock after company plan is canceled « Hot Air.c
The dealership’s old policy didn’t comply with O-Care requirements so it was canceled. A new policy would have been too expensive for the company to sponsor, so instead they handed their employees $2,400 apiece and wished them luck on the exchanges. Will that pay for the premium hikes and the higher deductibles? Probably not (especially once the new ObamaCare excise tax on premiums takes effect), but that’s all the company says it can afford to give. The employees themselves can, of course, opt for cheaper plans on the exchange to keep their costs down, but that brings us to the other post-New-Year’s ObamaCare landmine — namely, shrinking provider networks. According to the Journal, some doctors have seen a huge crunch in December of patients scheduling tests and treatments before New Year’s because that doctor isn’t in the network for their new O-Care plan in January. I thought that was a problem limited to rural areas where there aren’t many doctors to begin with, but no, evidently this is systemic. And it doesn’t affect just the cheap “bronze” plans either:
