ACA Will "Harm Manufacturers and Their Employees"

[GBFan]

"Perhaps perhaps no issue gives manufacturers more heartburn than health care," the head of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) told a gathering in Houston on Tuesday.

"If we don’t do something to fix the law, between six and seven million fewer American workers will have employer-sponsored coverage over the next 10 years. That will be the new reality for our workforce," said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons.

"The law, as implemented, will hurt manufacturers and their employees. Take, for instance, what you are facing in additional fees and costs over the next three years: $22.2 billion. That figure is simply added cost -- it won’t get that mom on your assembly line one more pediatrician visit or one more prescription filled for your shop floor manager’s family."

Timmons said 97 percent of manufacturers offer health coverage to their employees, but the health care law threatens their ability to provide those benefits by forcing them into a one-size-fits-all system.

Although the law is not supposed to affect companies with fewer than 50 employees, that is not the case, Timmons said.

He mentioned Staub Manufacturing Solutions in Dayton, Ohio, which has 22 employees. Its health care costs increased 21 percent last year -- and it anticipates a 91-percent increase this year. Timmons quoted Staub's president as saying, "The Affordable Care Act is far from affordable."

"We need real solutions that bring down health care costs and give manufacturers and other employers a greater ability to plan for the future, and the NAM is aggressively working with policymakers to see how we change the law to lower costs and expand access to health care," Timmons said.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

"Perhaps perhaps no issue gives manufacturers more heartburn than health care," the head of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) told a gathering in Houston on Tuesday.

"If we don’t do something to fix the law, between six and seven million fewer American workers will have employer-sponsored coverage over the next 10 years. That will be the new reality for our workforce," said NAM President and CEO Jay Timmons.

"The law, as implemented, will hurt manufacturers and their employees. Take, for instance, what you are facing in additional fees and costs over the next three years: $22.2 billion. That figure is simply added cost -- it won’t get that mom on your assembly line one more pediatrician visit or one more prescription filled for your shop floor manager’s family."

Timmons said 97 percent of manufacturers offer health coverage to their employees, but the health care law threatens their ability to provide those benefits by forcing them into a one-size-fits-all system.

Although the law is not supposed to affect companies with fewer than 50 employees, that is not the case, Timmons said.

He mentioned Staub Manufacturing Solutions in Dayton, Ohio, which has 22 employees. Its health care costs increased 21 percent last year -- and it anticipates a 91-percent increase this year. Timmons quoted Staub's president as saying, "The Affordable Care Act is far from affordable."

"We need real solutions that bring down health care costs and give manufacturers and other employers a greater ability to plan for the future, and the NAM is aggressively working with policymakers to see how we change the law to lower costs and expand access to health care," Timmons said.

only its not a one size fits all...not even close. You know what manufacturers in other nations do for health insurance? Nothing as they don't have to...

How is it this was never a issue when republicans came up with the plan? or put it into place? odd

 

[GBFan]

only its not a one size fits all...not even close. You know what manufacturers in other nations do for health insurance? Nothing as they don't have to...

How is it this was never a issue when republicans came up with the plan? or put it into place? odd

Odd?

Hardly that .... the four Republican bills sent to the Senate, and buried in Harry Reid's bottom desk drawer, addressed all the issues, offered substantive corrective actions, all without damaging the manufacturing base. But, then, Republicans believe in personal responsibility, something that seems to be foreign to the left.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

Odd?

Hardly that .... the four Republican bills sent to the Senate, and buried in Harry Reid's bottom desk drawer, addressed all the issues, offered substantive corrective actions, all without damaging the manufacturing base. But, then, Republicans believe in personal responsibility, something that seems to be foreign to the left.

cute , you just pretend its true. All Republicans have done is try to gut the plan and kill it. Not fix it. Or else you would be able to actuly point out one simple plan to fix it...that could actluy pass both houses ( if you make a plan only your party can support then you may as will sit with your thumb up your ass)

 

[GBFan]

cute , you just pretend its true. All Republicans have done is try to gut the plan and kill it. Not fix it. Or else you would be able to actuly point out one simple plan to fix it...that could actluy pass both houses ( if you make a plan only your party can support then you may as will sit with your thumb up your ass)

lol --- I truly enjoy the emptiness of your comments. What you call 'gut', I call substantive and legitimate points of discussion ... but then, we never get to discuss that, do we?

During the Obamacare negotiations, the Republicans offered 38 amendments to change various aspects of the bills - NONE of them came to a vote in the Senate ... in fact, NONE of them were even offered in the Senate.

To put the requirement that "one simple plan to fix it...that could actluy [sic] pass both houses", knowing full well that the Democrats are not the least bit interested in any changes, and that the President has publicly said he will veto ANY changes to the ACA, is fallacious, and lacking in political common sense. OF COURSE, they can't offer a change that will pass both houses, because the Democrats refuse to put any Republican suggestion up for discussion.

Grow up ... and realize that the Senate is being run like a dictatorship ... but, I will warn you of this ... just wait until next January when the Republicans do exactly the same thing ... I don't want to hear a single - not one - complaint out of the left, because they are the ones who built this train, and now they're going to have to ride it.

 

[Phoenix68]

ACA Will "Harm Manufacturers and Their Employees"​

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Record-Breaking 16.3 Million People
Signed Up For Health Care Coverage In ACA Marketplaces
January 25, 2023
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[mark francis]

cute , you just pretend its true. All Republicans have done is try to gut the plan and kill it. Not fix it. Or else you would be able to actuly point out one simple plan to fix it...that could actluy pass both houses ( if you make a plan only your party can support then you may as will sit with your thumb up your ass)

The way to fix a plan that is built upon raising tax levels of middle-class working people in order to pay health insurance costs of tens of millions of Americans and noncitizens is to scrap the 'free' program that is so burdensome to middle class working Americans.

 

[Phoenix68]

The way to fix a plan that is built upon raising tax levels of middle-class working people in order to pay health insurance costs of tens of millions of Americans and noncitizens is to scrap the 'free' program that is so burdensome to middle class working Americans.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Record-Breaking 16.3 Million People
Signed Up For Health Care Coverage In ACA Marketplaces
January 25, 2023
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"Got your burdensome, right HERE!!!"
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