More employers will drop their group health insurance and send their workers to the individual market to find coverage.
That was the prediction issued by Birmingham, Ala.-based Health Partners America on Wednesday, a day after the Obama administration revealed it had decided to postpone the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until 2015.
Health Partners, a leading brokerage training firm and operator of one the nation's growing number of private health care insurance exchanges, noted that before the decision, many small employers not subject to the mandate were considering abandoning coverage so their employees could access the government subsidies available through the coming exchanges.
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