NPR: Great News, Employers Might Start Paying You For Health Care!!!

Wow!!!

Employers will pay you money!!! Only in Obama's America would employers pay you consideration for your work!!!

Now, as Ed Morrissey noted, this is of course just an enormously deceptive, put-on-a-happy-smile euphemism for the truth: As predicted, and long denied by Obama and the progressives, Obamacare is a glidepath to destroying private insurance.

What NPR means, of course, is that employers plan to dump you on to the Obamacare exchanges.

They're not "paying you for healthcare," at least not in any new way: They were already paying you for healthcare. That's what "employer-provided healthcare" means, after all. They're paying you, partly in the form of a healthcare policy.

But that policy was a private one.

Now they'll be saving money (hint: this means paying you less) by paying you a contribution towards your health care, which you will then use to... buy Obamacare on the terrific website Healthcare.gov.

Incredibly dishonest. Conservatives have been complaining that this is precisely what Obamacare was designed to do, and the progressives called us liars every inch along the way.

Now that employers are openly discussing this -- and increasingly doing this -- NPR casts it as some kind of Victory for Employees.

Of course, this is nothing new for our corrupt, stupid, hopelessly partisan media.

Reuters, a few weeks ago:

Obamacare puts a floor under U.S. economy in first quarter

(Reuters) - As the U.S. economy teetered on the brink of contraction in the first quarter, one thing stood out. Healthcare spending increased at its fastest pace in more than three decades.

That surge is attributed to the implementation of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Because of Obamacare, the nation narrowly avoided its first decline in output in three years.

"GDP growth would have ... been negative were it not for healthcare spending," said Harm Bandholz, chief economist at UniCredit Research in New York.

I guess that "floor" that Obamacare provided for our economy turned out to be a a little bit weak.

posted by Ace at 08:04 PM

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