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To: renovator who wrote (236280)	11/1/2013 10:44:29 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542054

Lost in all of the concern and bloviating regarding the rollout site and loss of limited coverage policies is the long suffering citizen with an employer policy. These have been relentlessly ramping up in cost and deductibles for years and are just not in the current discussion. As current insureds, what are going to be the consequences going forward? More rate hikes? Will the insurers broaden or restrict their networks now? I guess they have been lost in the news because if one is receiving his insurance thru his employer it is not being cancelled due to the AFCA--at least as far as I know. I have read that the long term effect of the AFCA will probably be for employer's to stop offering coverage at work and instead give their employees a 'stipend" to shop for their own insurance. How this effects them probably depends on their income and its relation to subsidy qualification.