Cost-Containment

According to the report, Barneys did not determine that either customer should be questioned, and didn't take any action on the belief that they had committed a crime.

TNS finds that more than a third (35 percent) of those it asked would look for another job if their employer were to discontinue providing health insurance without providing any funds to help repurchase health insurance on their own.

Benefitfocus offers its clients carriers, among them a cloud-based subscription service to help them manage their benefits plans, and in so doing, has become one of the largest benefits software companies in the U.S.

The survey found nearly a third of franchise businesses have cut workers hours because of the requirement that companies with 50 or more full-time workers offer health insurance or pay a fine."

The nominal rate of the minimum wage has increased by 2,800 percent from its original value of 25 cents per hour, but the real value of the wage has declined from its 1968 peak by 33 percent.

The PPACA wasnt intended to displace employer-provided health care, of course, though critics and others have suggested it will do just that.