Analysis released Thursday from the Employee Benefit Research Instituteindicates employers could stop offeringhealth insurance if they believe employees no longervalue the benefit.
EBRI bases this prediction on whether the tax treatment foremployment-based health insurance is eliminated orsignificantly cut back as part of the federal debt-reductioneffort, a change that was proposed in December 2010.
President Obama's bipartisan National Commission on FiscalResponsibility and Reform called for reducing the preferentialtax treatment of employment-based health benefits as it applies toworkers, first by capping, then freezing, phasing down, andultimately eliminating them.
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