{"id":26581,"date":"2011-06-07T03:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/firms_halting_coverage_as_reform_starts_survey\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T03:01:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T03:01:39","slug":"firms_halting_coverage_as_reform_starts_survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26581","title":{"rendered":"(Marketwatch) Firms halting coverage as reform starts: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows.<\/p>\n<p>While only 7% of employees will be forced to switch to subsidized-exchange programs, at least 30% of companies say they will \u201cdefinitely or probably\u201d\u009d stop offering employer-sponsored coverage, according to the study published in McKinsey Quarterly.<\/p>\n<p>The survey of 1,300 employers says those who are keenly aware of the health-reform measure probably are more likely to consider an alternative to employer-sponsored plans, with 50% to 60% in this group expected to make a change. It also found that for some, it makes more sense to switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/firms-halting-coverage-as-reform-starts-survey-2011-06-06\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once provisions of the Affordable Care Act start to kick in during 2014, at least three of every 10 employers will probably stop offering health coverage, a survey released Monday shows. While only 7% of employees will be forced to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26581\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,513,589,149,104,114,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-the-2009-american-health-care-reform-debate","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}