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Obamacare Aside, Most Large Employers Plan to Keep Coverage

That's the view from non-partisan policy wonks, watchdogs, surveys and others without stake in the game.

By Gina Binole | Updated on November 12, 2013
Despite a few well-publicized cases of employers dropping coverage, insurance policy cancellations or even the roaring debate over what President Obama did or did not promise, it’s unlikely the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will force or prompt very many large employers to end their insurance coverage and dump workers onto exchanges.

That is the dispassionate assessment offered by non-partisan policy wonks, academics, government watchdogs, surveys of employers and others without a stake in the game.

“The bottom line is that most workers’ firms will be dominated by workers who receive better benefits and, through the tax system, better subsidies through employer-provided coverage than through (the) newly created insurance exchanges,” according to the non-partisan Urban Institute’s report, “Why Employers Will Continue to Provide Health Insurance. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act.”

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