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ObamaCare's Costs Driving Large Employers to Cut Benefits
ObamaCare's Costs Driving Large Employers to Cut Benefits
20 September 2013
Sally Pipes, President and CEO and Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses the proposed October 1 commencement of ObamaCare's health insurance exchanges and how increased medical costs and other costs associated with the Affordable Care Act have forced large corporate and university employers to cut health coverage benefits.
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