Comments on: Casey Mulligan on the ACA and Employment http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/casey-mulligan-on-the-aca-and-employment/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:48:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Floccina http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/casey-mulligan-on-the-aca-and-employment/#comment-453065 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:56:19 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4057#comment-453065 Congress the president should end all employer mandates they are too They make no sense.

]]> By: Andrew_M_Garland http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/casey-mulligan-on-the-aca-and-employment/#comment-453023 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 23:21:51 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4057#comment-453023 ObamaCare is supposedly a tax on employers, but it is really a tax on employees. Employment is dropping as a result. If you require an employer to pay $4,000 more per employee for health insurance or a $2,000 penalty, then the employer must pay the employee that much less, fire the employee (or not hire another), charge more for the product, or some combination of these.

Even if the employer can charge more for his products, he will sell less, and his employment will shrink. It is the employees who will receive less take-home pay (with better insurance) or be out of work in part or all.

If the employer pays the penalty, say $2,000 per employee, that must still be reserved from the offered pay. It does not show up on the pay stub. Then, the employee can buy insurance from an exchange with after-tax money. The employee gets less salary, buys insurance without an implicit tax deduction, and pays more for “better” insurance. His only hope is an exchange subsidy, if his salary is low enough. The huge outlays in subsidies will soon become apparent.

This is a huge redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the poor. Did people think the money was going to come from the rich? Worse, the Dems expect the public to blame their employers, not the policies of the caring and heart-feeling Dems.

Company Paid Health Insurance is Part of Your Salary

]]> By: Lord http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/casey-mulligan-on-the-aca-and-employment/#comment-453020 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:16:45 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4057#comment-453020 A good reason to make coverage universal and allow those who want to pay more to do so at their own cost.

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