Starting next year, many employers will be forced under ObamaCare socialized medicine to let their workers sign their adult children up for the companies’ medical insurance plans. That ObamaCare mandate will allow those “children” to remain on their parents’ health plans up to age 26.
The trouble is, the Democrats who passed ObamaCare and the president who signed it into law provided no funding to pay for that mandate. So, not surprisingly, companies that will be forced to expand coverage to the grown children of their employees are scrambling to find ways to pay for that benefit.
“In the future, many employers say they are going to take steps to offset the increased costs of offering extended coverage …,” The New York Times reported. More than one-third of the employers polled in one survey “said they would consider either charging more for dependent coverage in general or changing their coverage structure from simple ‘individual’ and ‘family’ designations to rate tiers that vary the premium based on the number of people that participate in the plan,” the newspaper added.
In other words, employees’ health care costs are likely to rise despite the repeated promises that ObamaCare would bring costs under control.
There are no benefits without costs, but that is a lesson that seems almost entirely lost on our big-spending federal government.