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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 753860" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/07/18/firms_cancel_health_coverage/" target="_blank">(Boston Globe)</a>- The relentlessly rising&nbsp; cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies&nbsp; to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for&nbsp; state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some analysts say, could&nbsp; eventually weigh heavily on the state’s already-stressed budget.
 Since April 1, the date many insurance contracts are renewed for&nbsp; small businesses, the owners of about 90 small companies terminated&nbsp; their insurance plans with Braintree-based broker Jeff Rich and&nbsp; indicated in a follow-up survey that they were relying on&nbsp; publicly-funded insurance for their employees.


And this was the model for Obamacare ?

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[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 753860, member: 12952"] [INDENT][URL="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/07/18/firms_cancel_health_coverage/"](Boston Globe)[/URL]-[B] The relentlessly rising cost of health insurance is prompting some small Massachusetts companies to drop coverage for their workers and encourage them to sign up for state-subsidized care instead, a trend that, some analysts say, could eventually weigh heavily on the state’s already-stressed budget.[/B] Since April 1, the date many insurance contracts are renewed for small businesses, the owners of about 90 small companies terminated their insurance plans with Braintree-based broker Jeff Rich and indicated in a follow-up survey that they were relying on publicly-funded insurance for their employees. And this was the model for Obamacare ? [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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