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The newest thing in the health care industrial complex: Dropping health care coverage for employees’ spouses.
From MarketWatch:
But when employers drop spouses, they often lose more than just the one individual, when couples choose instead to seek coverage together under the other partner’s employer. Terre Haute, which pays $6 million annually to insure nearly 1,200 people including employees and their family members, received more than 20 new plan members when a local university, bank and county government stopped insuring spouses, according to Bennett. “We have a great plan, so they want to be on ours. All we’re trying to do is level the playing field here,” he says.
It’s almost as if, by stripping folks of health coverage, they are trying to make single-payer inevitable.
Doing so would actually benefit businesses, by spreading the costs more equitably across the population, even as the insurance bonus babies and for-profit hospital czars would scream about losing all those juicy bonuses and country club memberships.