More Obamacare Failures / Reason # 9,547 Not to Expand Medicaid in Ohio

Businesses in Ohio made some of the deepest cuts in the nation to employee health insurance benefits during the past decade, according to a report released Thursday.
The State Health Access Data Assistance Center, an independent group that studies health care, found about 11 million American workers lost their employer-provided health insurance plans between 2000 and 2011. That’s a drop of 10 percentage points nationwide.
Ohio had the fourth biggest drop in the country, falling 13.7 percentage points.
Workers who kept their insurance saw premiums double in most states, with costs for single coverage increasing by about $2,500 a year in the state.
Analysts blame the decline in employer-provided insurance on a combination of economic turmoil, ever-increasing health care costs and uncertainty over President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, known by some as Obamacare. More….

2013-04-15 04:01:41

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