For an employer, it’s w-a-a-a-a-y cheaper to pay the “penalty” of $2,000 per employee annually than provide health insurance (beginning in 2014). I predict the majority of employees will take the cash and NOT get health insurance. When they need care (emergency or otherwise), they will just take their chances that their providers will not be able to collect from them.
This is what has been going on with uninsured motorists in CA for many years who are “supposed” to have “mandatory” liability coverage. We don’t jail persons who owe fines in CA.
Whether or not an employer offers health coverage or not (or drops it) will have no effect on their turnover (if MANY employers in the same area drop coverage). Employees will just grovel and “bottom-feed” to take what they can get. Sad … but I think this is the path employees will (involuntarily) take.
