McKinsey Report: Act II

ACT II

This whole McKinsey report thing has been a mess, and a lot of publicity for McKinsey.  The McKinsey Report was a survey of more than 1,000 employer groups and found that approximately 30% would "definitely" or "probably stop offering employer sponsored health coverage to their employees because it could be less costly to send the employees to the exchange and pay a penalty, if any.  

The White House is still pushing McKinsey to release more information on the findings since the outcome of the McKinsey Report was so different from that of the Congressional Budget Office, RAND or Urban Institutes findings. 

McKinsey commissioned IPSOS, the third largest market and research firm in the world to conduct the survey.  The survey was comprised using employer groups ranging from less that 20 employees to more than 10,000 and from a pool of hundreds of thousands of people in IPSOS databases. 

There are many surveys and some will have countering views.  However, if I am an employer and paying $10,000 a year for my employees health care and they can go to an exchange and get it cheaper while I pay a $2000 penalty, I may just do that.  And so may many other employers.  However, many won't because they may believe that keeping their coverage intact, keeps them more competitive. 

I guess time will tell and we will see what happens in 2014.  Cause if you can't keep the plan you have, as the President promised, it may be big pill to swallow for many people.