Big employers still don’t embrace the Medicare for All approach. But they are no longer opposed to an in-between step to get an affordable alternative
"If you talk to small businesses, the biggest cost is health care, and we have to figure out how to get together and make it affordable for everyone," she added.in employer-sponsored plans, who comprise more than half of the U.S. population. Polling shows an overwhelming majority like their employer-sponsored insurance — although Lake notes much of the appeal is that employers foot most of the bill.
The willingness to consider the public option comes as employers' historically close lobbying alliance with the health insurance industry has frayed over issues like the Trump administration's push to publicize the secret rates hospitals and insurers negotiate. Employers are pushing for more transparency while hospitals and insurers fight the effort as a threat to their business.
“I still can’t believe that we in our democracy allow [the health care industry] to have the power at the table that they have.”"It demonstrates that the provider community is pushing payers toward government solutions," said James Gelfand of the ERISA Industry Committee, who was a top lobbyist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce during the Obamacare wars and successfully fought against the inclusion of a public option.
Frustrations with cost reverberate across the board, among representatives of multinational energy firms, banks, universities and technology firms. Also factoring into the debate are smaller companies, family businesses and entrepreneurs who increasingly have to drop insurance benefits due to the costs of the small group and individual markets of Obamacare.
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