The Obamacare mandate applies to large employers beginning next year and to small employers the year after that. What can employers do about it? Surprisingly, firms that are large enough to self-insure can satisfy the mandate without covering hospitalization! They can also avoid paying for mental health care and even emergency rooms visits. Yet insurance for small firms and individuals does have to cover these things. There are also other options that are only available for large firms.
What Can Employers Do to Reduce the Cost of Obamacare?
Also published in Forbes Tue. September 16, 2014
John C. Goodman is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.
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