Some 12% of companies used salary-based premiums in 2012, up from 10% in
2011, according to a study by benefits consultant Mercer. The practice
is especially common among large employers, with 20% of companies that
have at least 5,000 employees using the strategy last year. A separate
survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the approach of
varying premium contributions by wage level is more popular in the
Northeast, where 9% of companies used the strategy, and in the Midwest,
where 6% of employers did, compared with 2% of companies in the South
and the West.
While the strategy, which some employers have been using for decades, is
still not mainstream, more companies are adopting the system as a way
to prepare for the health reform law. It makes sense for some employers
to shift costs to wealthier workers, especially as health-care costs
continue to grow at a faster clip than wages, says Tim Nimmer, chief
actuary and chief broking officer with Aon Hewitt, a human-resources
consulting firm. Companies feel more comfortable “putting that increase
on their higher earners just because they can afford it,” says Nimmer.
If premiums increase by $100 for a company’s chief executive it may seem
“meaningless,” but “for someone making $25,000, it could be the
difference between going out to eat or paying electric bills or buying
gas,” he says.
As I've been clamoring since this Idiocy was passed in both the House and Senate, there is nothing affordable in ACA if anything this will impoverish the American people even further.
Maybe that's the plan? an impoverished people is a controlled people..Take North Korea as an example, sure we are not there yet, but it gets closer and closer by the day.
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